Merging KAuth into KDELibs

Aaron J. Seigo aseigo at kde.org
Mon Sep 28 18:04:01 BST 2009


On September 28, 2009, Parker Coates wrote:
> Cool names are cool for major platforms that want some branding. No
> offense, but from what I understand, KAuth doesn't really fall into
> that category. It's a rather small developer API meant to do one or
> two things and do them well. An informative name like KAuthorization
> is likely to serve it better.

absolutely; the unique names are for external marketing purposes and creating 
a feel for the platform pillars amongst those who are/were creating them for 
KDE 4. things in the libs with names already should stick to those (we do this 
even in libplasma)

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