Media Query: KDE's Support For Android Tablets

todd rme toddrme2178 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 22 18:50:24 UTC 2011


On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Alex Fiestas <afiestas at kde.org> wrote:
> On 11/22/2011 02:29 PM, Markus Slopianka wrote:
>>
>> As far as I'm aware, existing MTP access methods (DigiKam, Amarok) were
>> seen as good
>> enough, so nobody so far found the need to write a MTP KIO Slave to mount
>> MTP devices in
>> Dolphin. (Well, not exactly true: In 2007 a 3rd party wrote it but it died
>> in alpha stage:
>> http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/kio_mtp?content=55618 )
>> I don't have an MTP device so I can't tell how good Amarok and DigiKam in
>> that respect.
>
> I'm planning on working in this since I bought a Galaxy Tab 10.1 a few weeks
> ago though in that case it won't work ebcause Samsung implements some nasty
> DRM mtp version.
>
> I don't have much time to work on this so help is welcomed :p

With Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and later MTP is used for all
Android devices, not only tablets.  So anyone using an Android 4 or
later phone or 3 or later tablet will need to use MTP to access the
internal memory.

-Todd


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