[Kde-hardware-devel] Solid UPnP GSoC idea

[Paulo Rômulo]

Hey, all.

After reading your messages I have written my early proposal for this idea
and before submit it at the GSoC website, I would listen some feedback from
you.

You can find it here: http://docs.google.com/View?id=d785g6k_11gpccrpdx

Thanks in advance.
--
Paulo Rômulo Alves Barros
MSc. Candidate in Computer Science
Embedded Systems and Pervasive Computing Lab
http://embedded.ufcg.edu.br/indexen.html



2010/4/7 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kossebau at kde.org>

> Hi Bart, Paulo and all,
>
> Mardi, le 6 avril 2010, à 13:46, Bart Cerneels a écrit:
> > Hey metalworkers,
> >
> > The recent discussion here and on melange have shown that UPnP is a
>
> Melange?
>
> > very interesting, but also a very large topic for a single GSoC
> > student.
> > Since GSoC is intended for learning and contributor integration rather
> > then burning people out, I decided to make a new GSoC proposal.
> >
> >
> http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2010/Ideas#Project:_Network_Device_Detection_
> > .26_Desktop_Integration_for_UPnP
> >
> > This proposal focuses on the Solid detection side and also various
> > smaller integrations into KDE SC. Examples I can think of:
> > - Plasma device notifier extended to list UPnP mediaserver shares.
> > With extra info like IP address, netbios- or hostname, etc
> > - Gateway listed in KNetworkManager tooltip, with list of forwarded
> > ports and a direct link to the management page.
>
> A module wrapping access to the InternetGatewayDevice type would indeed be
> useful. E.g. currently KTorrent and Konversation both have their own custom
> stand-alone code (though derived from each other) to punch a hole into the
> gateway (for NAT traversal), and Kopete lacks even that.
>
> > - Network neighborhood plasma widget.
>
> I would like that. And other like Kevin I also think it should be a
> different
> one to the one for the locally connected. I even would prefer it it would
> show
> the devices similarly to how the windows are shown in the tasks(/windows)
> applet, just with icon-only mode. Kind of what the network:/ kio-slave
> shows,
> just as convenient applet, with added value.
>
> > The UPnP backend for Solid will test the architecture in preparation
> > for other local network protocols: DAAP, Bonjour, netbios, ...
>
> For this it might also be interesting to see how
> http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdebase/runtime/kioslave/network/network/
> could be enhanced as an alternative. The remote (and more service-oriented)
> nature of stuff on the network might not really fit into the scope of Solid
> perhaps.
> Unless we expect Solid to e.g. deliver all http servers on the network.
> Would
> we?
>
> Cheers
> Friedrich
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