<p dir="ltr">Well, you are free to submit an application for whatever you want, but you already know something that we are quite interested on: cross-platforming the current code.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 20, 2015 11:35 PM, "pashazz" <<a href="mailto:pzinin@gmail.com">pzinin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Agreed. But what should I include in my GSoC application?<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-01-20 19:39 GMT+03:00 Albert Vaca <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:albertvaka@gmail.com" target="_blank">albertvaka@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Sshfs could be easily replaceable by kiossh. But anyway I do not think it's time to focus on specific plugins yet!! The first step is to make the core part work well (discovery, pairing, encryption...).</p>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Jan 19, 2015 11:10 PM, "Pavel Zinin" <<a href="mailto:pzinin@gmail.com" target="_blank">pzinin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div>By rewriting I mean only necessary changes. After all I do not want break everything and change architecture. So I would prefer sticking to sshfs <br>
And I must admit that I am rare windows user: KDE is second to none since 2008 =)<br>
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I will eventually take a look at sshfs version for windows and figure out how to leverage it.. as I know it is not direct port from fuse but rather based on <a href="http://Dokan.net" target="_blank">Dokan.net</a>. I will try to cover more details in the actual proposal. <br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 January 2015 06:57:26 EET, Aleix Pol <<a href="mailto:aleixpol@kde.org" target="_blank">aleixpol@kde.org</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<pre>On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 4:47 AM, Albert Vaca <<a href="mailto:albertvaka@gmail.com" target="_blank">albertvaka@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid #729fcf;padding-left:1ex"> Sometimes I use Windows and Mac, and I really miss KDE Connect on these<br> platforms. I would love to have KDE Connect in every platform, but having 1<br> client per platform is unsustainable.<br><br> Using KDE for Windows I once managed to compile and run KDE Connect on<br> Windows 7, even though lots of plugins and features were missing. It's<br> normal to find this problems when porting code to a different platform, but<br> I think that our approach here should be to fix this issues instead of<br> rewriting everything from scratch. This is definitely more difficult and<br> challenging, specially for different platforms like Windows Phone, but I<br> truly believe that it is the correct choice.<br><br><br> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015
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PM, Aleix Pol <<a href="mailto:aleixpol@kde.org" target="_blank">aleixpol@kde.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid #ad7fa8;padding-left:1ex"><br> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 1:05 AM, Pavel Borisov <<a href="mailto:pzinin@gmail.com" target="_blank">pzinin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid #8ae234;padding-left:1ex"> On 20.01.2015 02:27, Aleix Pol wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid #fcaf3e;padding-left:1ex"><br> This needs investigation. I have reports that dbus works properly on<br> OS X, Windows, Android and BBX.</blockquote><br> Yes it does. But as far as I am concerned Qt on Windows does not support<br> dbus by default so it requires rebuilding. Anyway if it will work as it<br> is -<br> fine.<br><br> Also, by universal client for everything I mean, really, if I will do<br> that I<br> will make it like that (I won't touch exis
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KDE gui as it is good<br> already).<br><br> BTW it is actually what I want to propose as GSoC project. And it<br> implies<br> sort of real changes because most plugins are highly dependent on KDE.<br> For<br> example, SFTP plugin uses KIO (however very slightly) . More important,<br> it<br> uses sshfs which is unacceptable on windows (it has its own port of<br> sshfs<br> and I will try to figure out how to deal with it probably), etc, etc.<br><br> In conclusion, pretty much everything there needs to be rewritten<br> (slightly,<br> but still) in order to make it cross-platform.</blockquote><br><br> I understand more the e-mails then. I'll be looking forward to your<br> application. I must admit though that I don't love the fact that<br> you're talking so much about rewritting, I want to read about<br> improvements, so if there's anything to be rewritten (and in fact I<br> agree the sftp plugin is a good candidate) please explain well w
hat<br> you want to do. Sentences like "everything needs to be rewritten" are<br> bad.<br><br> For example, KIO is really available and working on Windows, maybe<br> there's something better you can do? What would you use instead? Is<br> ssh the problem? Or sshfs itself? How do you plan to integrate it on<br> Windows?<br> Maybe what we want in the end is not SFTP-kind-of-thing but actual<br> file synchronization...<br><br> Aleix<br><hr><br> KDEConnect mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:KDEConnect@kde.org" target="_blank">KDEConnect@kde.org</a><br> <a href="https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdeconnect" target="_blank">https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdeconnect</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><br><br>Maybe a good first approach would be to have a GSoC that makes sure<br>KDE Connect works great on Windows/OS X/Gnome rather than going to<br>different mobile platforms that are admittedly harder.<br><br>Aleix<br></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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