[Kde-hardware-devel] KDE/kdelibs/solid/solid

[Bart Cerneels]

2010/2/25 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kossebau at kde.org>
>
> Hi co-metalworkers,
>
> as you could read in Kevin's notes from the Solid BoF at Tokamak two days ago
> he planned to split up the architecture of Solid to allow for multiple
> backends. Timeframe was estimated to be somewhen after 4.5... seems yesterday
> he came back from the future and dropped a copy of that code into the current
> trunk. Being the one to do the UPnP backend* because of the experience by my
> network:/ kio-slave I had no choice to follow him and start to do my share the
> last hours, too. Without any future travels, sadly. But first success.
>
> * cmp. right side of http://ervin.ipsquad.net/share/solid_multibackend.jpg
>
> Jeudi, le 25 février 2010, à 02:02, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau a écrit:
> > SVN commit 1095786 by kossebau:
> >
> > added: new Solid backend for UPnP devices like MediaServers and Gateways
> >  (initial code dump, prealpha, but should be crashfree)
> >
> > First additional backend, now that Kevin made it already possible,
> > beating the Bluetooth metalworkers :) (Kevin knows how to motivate).
> >
> > Reuses the UPnP controlpoint code from the network:/ kio-slave
> > (duplicating the code for now, will be resolved later)
>
> So the code is now in trunk and compiled and run by default. The UPnP backend
> currently uses the Coherence** server via D-Bus, so that is just a runtime
> dependency and will fail silently if no Coherence server with a compatible
> version or at all can be started/reached. Other backends should be possible.
>
> ** http://coherence-project.org/
>
> The code used for wrapping the UPnP stuff is bascially result of the second
> Coherence/KDE sprint last autumn and only a few weeks ago got silently dropped
> by me into trunk for the use with the network:/ kio-slave from
> kdebase/runtime. There you should now also see any UPnP devices in your local
> network popping up. For now they simply forward to the presentation url if
> available (the address of the web interface for the device).
>
> What we need now is someone to help Bart to complete the kio-slave*** to
> access the content of UPnP MediaServer devices, as he is busy with other
> stuff.
>
> And then some people who designs nice interfaces (as in Solid API) for the
> control of UPnP InternetGateway devices (like for NAT traversal) and, as far
> as useful, for that of MediaServers. For all other kind of device types this
> might also be nice to have, but these two seem to be the most important.
>
> *** http://commonideas.blogspot.com/2009/10/kioupnp.html

See http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2010/Ideas#Project:_Amarok_.26_KDE_UPnP_integration

Candidates are already applying.

>
> > needs Coherence v0.6.5 at least (with D-Bus service file, some packages
> >  miss this, e.g. the default OpenSUSE one)
>
> For OpenSuse 11.2 pick the Coherence package "python-coherence" from
> obs://build.opensuse.org/GNOME (use software.opensuse.org), this works for me.
>
> Those too lazy to try the bleeding edge see the attached screenshot of a local
> UPnP MediaServer showing up in the solidhardwarebrowser (HAL data missing due
> to not yet ported model/view code inside the program).
>
> Cheers
> Friedrich
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