# class KAboutPerson

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Module | kdecore
Namespace |
Class | KAboutPerson
Inherits |

This class is used to store information about a person or developer. It can store the person's name, a task, an email address and a link to a home page. This class is intended for use in the KAboutData class, but it can be used elsewhere as well. Normally you should at least define the person's name. Creating a KAboutPerson object by yourself is relatively useless, but the KAboutData methods KAboutData.authors() and KAboutData.credits() return lists of KAboutPerson data objects which you can examine.

Example usage within a main(), retrieving the list of people involved with a program and re-using data from one of them:

    KAboutData about("khello", "khello", ki18n("KHello"), "0.1",
    ki18n("A KDE version of Hello, world!"),
    KAboutData.License_LGPL,
    ki18n("Copyright (c) 2003 Developer"));

    about.addAuthor(ki18n("Joe Developer"), ki18n("developer"), "joe@host.com", 0);
    QList<KAboutPerson> people = about.authors();
    about.addCredit(people[0].name(), people[0].task());

Instead of the more usual i18n calls, for translatable text the ki18n calls are used to produce KLocalizedStrings, which can delay the translation lookup. This is necessary because the translation catalogs are usually not yet initialized at the point where KAboutData is constructed.

KDE4

### methods

- KAboutPerson (name, task, emailAddress, webAddress)

  returns ctor
  KDE 4.1.0 and later only

  Argument | Type | Default
  --- | --- | ---
  name | KLocalizedString |
  task | KLocalizedString | KLocalizedString()
  emailAddress | QByteArray | QByteArray()
  webAddress | QByteArray | QByteArray()

  Convenience constructor

  name - The name of the person.

  task - The task of this person.

  emailAddress - The email address of the person.

  webAddress - Home page of the person.

- KAboutPerson (other)

  returns ctor

  Argument | Type | Default
  --- | --- | ---
  other | KAboutPerson |

  Copy constructor. Performs a deep copy.

  other - object to copy

- KAboutPerson (name, email)

  returns ctor
  Not implemented
  KDE 4.1.0 and later only

  Argument | Type | Default
  --- | --- | ---
  name | QString |
  email | QString |

  Internal Used by KAboutData to construct translator data.

- KAboutPerson (a0, a1, a2, a3)

  returns ctor
  before KDE 4.1.0 only

  Argument | Type | Default
  --- | --- | ---
  a0 | KLocalizedString |
  a1 | KLocalizedString | KLocalizedString()
  a2 | QByteArray | QByteArray()
  a3 | QByteArray | QByteArray()

- KAboutPerson (a0, a1)

  returns ctor
  Not implemented
  before KDE 4.1.0 only

  Argument | Type | Default
  --- | --- | ---
  a0 | QString |
  a1 | QString |

- emailAddress ( )

  returns QString

  The person's email address Returns the person's email address (can be QString(), if it has been constructed with an empty email)

- name ( )

  returns QString

  The person's name Returns the person's name (can be QString(), if it has been constructed with an empty name)

- task ( )

  returns QString

  The person's task Returns the person's task (can be QString(), if it has been constructed with an empty task)

- webAddress ( )

  returns QString

  The home page or a relevant link Returns the persons home page (can be QString(), if it has been constructed with an empty home page)