Fwd: KIO-MTP development

[Myriam Schweingruber]

FYI

Albert also asked him to move to KDE's git instead of github


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: todd rme <toddrme2178 at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 16:39
Subject: Re: KIO-MTP development
To: kde-devel at kde.org, philschmidt at gmx.net


On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Philipp Schmidt <philschmidt at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
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> this week I started developing a KIO-Slave for MTP since I now have a Galaxy
> Nexus and like accessing it via Dolphin and not having to use mtpfs. You can
> find it on github:
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> https://github.com/hefeweiz3n/kio-mtp
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> So far it can do very little (Basically listing devices, storages and files
> works, if the right kio-instance gets the cache), but I am working on that.
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> Since concurrent access to the devices using libmtp is buggy at best I would
> like to introduce a persistent cache that gets updated when changing
> operations occur or devices get plugged in/removed. Is there any preferred
> way in KDE to do that, or an infrastructure already in place?
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> Also, if you have any other ideas or things to say (for example regarding
> the coding style), please do ;). My long term goal is to get this integrated
> into KDELibs, together with a Solid-Component that detects MTP-Devices and
> shows them in Dolphin etc. Help is also appreciated :).
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> Regards
>
> Philipp Schmidt

You might also want to forward this to the dolphin and amarok mailing
lists, since they may want to be able to use this kio slave for their
own mtp access.  Having a single mtp access tool would probably be
nice.

-Todd

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