Google SoC Idea: web-interface library

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

Matej Svejda said the following, On 2008-03-20 19:37:
> Hi!
> 
> I want to participate in Google's SoC and would like to hear your
> opinion on this idea for a proposal:
> 
> A lot of KDE programs have web-interfaces. KGet just got one, KTorrent
> has had one for some time now, there's a web-interface script for
> Amarok and maybe some more I've missed. All these programs implement
> the same functionality. KTorrent (for example) has it's own small
> http-server with PHP support.
> 
> My "idea" is to put all this into a library so that applications can
> really easily create web-interfaces. Besides the ones I've mentioned
> there are many other applications where a web-interface makes sense:
> Kiosk (once it has been ported to KDE 4), some KCM-modules, Kontact
> (maybe directly Akonadi), Juk, Strigi/Nepomuk, ....
> 
> So here's my plan:
> 
>   * create a simple, light-weight HTTP server using
> QTcpServer-functionality (maybe add features like mod_rewrite so
> web-frameworks like rails can be used)

Who codes -- plays (and decides), but have you considered looking at 
http://www.lighttpd.net?
BTW, there were plans (exactly for gosc 2k7) for Web Forms 
(http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/2002)

>   * connect this web server to use Kross for executing scripts. This
> would give it instant ability to write code in Python, Ruby,
> JavaSciprt (?) and Java
>   * make adding objects and modules from the application to the
> web-frontend script possible through Kross
>   * maybe create a PHP backend for Kross since most web-software is
> developed in PHP
>  * port one of the existing web-interfaces to this solution or maybe
> create a new one

Nice ideas.


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