kdecore.reorganize();

it wasn't what i intended to work on today, but i ended up taking up where olivier goffart had left off last week rearranging the files in libkdecore. a few items moved into kdeui, mostly little bits of utility code that don't even get installed (exception: fixx11h.h, which i think is the header with more repeated letters in it than any other =). the classes are all in their little homes.

there are a few classes in there that we need to get rid of or at least limit the use of: kstringhandler, kidn and kstaticdeleter.

kstringhandler has a bunch of static methods that are useful for manipulation strings, but many of them are now provided for by qstring quite nicely. some aren't. we need to pick through these methods and figure out which is which and then removed the few dozen places they are each used. finally changing it from a class to a namespace and we'll be all good.

kidn was used to translate international domain names to strings and vice versa. well, qurl does all of that for us. in particular the QUrl::fromAce and QUrl::toAce static methods can be used to replace pretty much all remaining uses of kidn we have.

kstaticdeleter should be abandoned due to qt providing a couple of useful macros: Q_GLOBAL_STATIC and Q_GLOBAL_STATIC_WITH_ARGS. these macros are thread safe and will let us limit our public api exposure in libkdecore.

the above would make nice slightly-above-beginner-but-not-quite-intermediate jobs for people to sink their coding teeth into. let me know if you're interested in taking on any of these items.

i also got good news the other day regarding dbus adaptors in qt 4.3: it will be possible to access the dbus message and connection that called a slot in a class (as well as tell if the slot was called via dbus) in much the same way qscriptable, part of the spanky new qscript stuff, does. why is this good news? it means that we can now avoid most reasons to hand-edit dbus adaptors. yay! thiago said he'll also be backporting this qt-copy so i can start using it sooner, in specific to replace the dcop transaction based code in the screensaver/locking code with delayed dbus responses.

right now i'm watching kdelibs compile as i'm about to tear into a veg platter from the falafel king down the street. i was talking to seele earlier about the human interface guidelines and toolbars and we got talking about food ... and then fallafels. and then other med food. and ... i just had to have some. damn you seele! damn you fallafel balls for being so good! damn you! =)