My application for Season of KDE 2011

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Friday 06 May 2011, Mark wrote:
> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Mark <markg85 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 8:25 PM, todd rme <toddrme2178 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:33 AM, tushar mehta <mehtatus at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >> > From: tushar mehta <mehtatus at gmail.com>
> >> > Date: Mon, May 2, 2011 at 9:25 PM
> >> > Subject: My application for Season of KDE 2011
> >> > To: kde-soc-mentor at kde.org
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> > Hello all :)
> >> > 
> >> > I applied for the GSoC-2011 for KIO application but did get selected
> >> > for
> >> 
> >> it.
> >> 
> >> > I am still looking for project in this summer in KDE.
> >> > 
> >> > I have no specific project in my mind. I don't know which projects are
> >> > allocated
> >> > to students for GSoC-2011 so any project appropriate for me according
> >> > to
> >> 
> >> my
> >> 
> >> > profile
> >> > I can work on.
> >> > 
> >> > If any project which is not related to KDE or any other project which
> >> 
> >> fits
> >> 
> >> > to my profile
> >> > and any mentor wants me to work I can work on it.
> >> > 
> >> > I would like to prefer for project in which system programming is
> >> 
> >> involved.
> >> 
> >> > I have no experience in graphics side programming.
> >> > Very little experience in scripting and web site development.
> >> > 
> >> > I am good at C and C++.
> >> > 
> >> > Any system programming related project will be perfect for me :)
> >> > 
> >> > My specific interest includes kernel programming( I am beginner in it
> >> > :)
> >> 
> >> )
> >> 
> >> > To explore more about my interest I did many projects on Linux based
> >> > Operating System from my UG only.
> >> > 
> >> > Here are some area on which I have worked till date:
> >> > - I worked as an embedded engineer for 1.5 years in
> >> > eInfochips.(http://www.einfochips.com)
> >> > - During my job I made Linux Ethernet driver for DaVinci based SoC.
> >> > - I also worked on network protocols like IGMPv3 as part of protocol
> >> > verification project.
> >> > 
> >> > I did my UG( Computer Science as Major ) and currently I am doing
> >> > my M.Tech ( Software Engineering as Major )
> >> > in International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore,
> >> > India.
> >> > 
> >> > During My 1st and 2nd Semester I did following projects:
> >> > - Made Chromium secure live USB by removing hard disk driver
> >> > 
> >> >   from it and made appropriate changes to make it bootable via USB.
> >> > 
> >> > - I have also coded one Linux kernel module which was keeping track of
> >> 
> >> IPC
> >> 
> >> >   object(i.e. Semaphore) waiting process queue.
> >> > 
> >> > Here is the major projects details and some source code that I have
> >> > done till:
> >> > http://crocodoc.com/D9wE6G
> >> > http://crocodoc.com/6ZfQ0a
> >> > 
> >> > I am planing to take advanced operation system as my one of the main
> >> > subject. So if I am getting
> >> > any project related to it, I can talk to my professor and can request
> >> 
> >> him to
> >> 
> >> > consider it
> >> > as project elective. So that I can work on it for next 6 month also.
> >> > 
> >> > I would like to work for any project that is appropriate according to
> >> > my profile.
> >> > If there are any other projects available then also I am open to work
> >> 
> >> for
> >> 
> >> > it.
> >> > 
> >> > I can also do work for any application.
> >> > 
> >> > I like to work for open source and want to explore this world.
> >> > I am expecting from this project a good learning experience plus a
> >> > good bridge
> >> > between open source organization and my institute.
> >> > 
> >> > Let me know what is I need to do further.
> >> 
> >> Another potential KIO project: fuse support or some sort of mounting
> >> of KIO slaves.  Currently only KDE applications support kio slaves.
> >> GNOME applications and commandline applications cannot use it.  Having
> >> KIO slaves automatically mounted somewhere so they can ba accessed by
> >> non-KDE applications would help interporability a lot.  GIO (gnome's
> >> equivalent) already does this (mounting them in a hidden directory).
> >> I am not sure what the best approach to this would be, though.  There
> >> was some work done on this in the KIO-fuse project, but it seems to
> >> have been abandoned.
> >> 
> >> -Todd
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Just a suggestion here. When i want to access my network share on the
> > command line i usually use dolphin first to see where it is for the
> > folder structure and then use mount -t cifs to access it on the console.
> > Please do not mount it in hidden folders but just in the places where
> > mounts belong in /mnt or /media since that would make it really usable
> > on the command line as well.
> > 
> > Btw. How is dolphin (thus KIO) handling network shares right now? Isn't
> > it mounted somewhere already?

No.
E.g. the samba ioslave uses libsmb.

> > I don't have a lot of spare time but i do want to work on this if
> > possible but i'm guessing it's to hard and to much for just a spare time
> > project so don't expect anything.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Mark
> 
> For who wants information about the existing KioFuse project (dead?) :
> http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KioFuse

I started this quite some time ago, and then left it when I didn't need it 
anymore.
Then someone took it over and worked a bit on it.
The idea was that basically if you "mount" one ioslaves, and when this ioslave 
gets a posix file request, it downloads the file via kio, and then properly 
answers the file request (like open, read, write, etc.).
Don't know how much has changed since then.

Alex