Status update: KIO-MTP

Bart Cerneels bart.cerneels at gmail.com
Mon Sep 24 06:03:07 UTC 2012


On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Philipp Schmidt <philschmidt at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> just a little status update on the kio-mtp progress. The Project is now in
> playground. You can find it here:
>
> https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/base/kio-mtp
>
> The most important changes:
>  - More stability
>  - More speed thanks to caching, especially when copying lots of small files
> where the lookup for the file id (needed for copying) took too long. Since you
> usually list the directory they are in prior to copying they are now in the
> cache which now results in ludicrous speed (yeah Mel Brooks, I'm looking at
> you :D) increases for lots of small files (e.g. Photos), not so much for a few
> big files ;).
>
> Still no compiling instructions, these will follow with the first "official"
> Alpha. So, if you don't now how to cmake/make/make install, leave it be for
> the time being.
>
> Also: Would someone be willing to tolerate a guest post on his/her blog where
> I could announce it (I don't have one [yet])? Preferably Alex Fiestas, since
> he ist kind of involved ;), but I think once it is ready enough an
> announcement should be made at least somewhere, so people know it's coming.
>
> Cheers,
> Philipp


Cloned it and compiled without effort, looking at the code now.
Perhaps you can throw this on reviewboard so we can comment?


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