[Kde-hardware-devel] Identifying iPod and iPhone-like devices using Solid

[Alex Fiestas]

After reviewing twice your patch and understanding the whole situation, 
now I'm wondering which steps we should perform in order to provide a 
kick-ass support for this kind of devices in KDE, if I got it correctly 
these are the 3 kind of devices we can manage in a special way:

Storage + M-P-I: Devices that can be mount, and m-p-i tells us 
interesting paths such Music, Photos...

MTP: Devices that CAN'T be mount but instead use a protocol called MTP. 
This protocol not only allow file transfer but it is service based, 
offering a list of services and capabilities such music, photo, etc

iOS: Similar to MTP but with another protocol supported by 
libimobiledevices.


So, putting the technicals bits aside I think we can improve the 
situation by:

Storage + M-P-I: Not much to do I think, amarok and relevant 
applications should use m-p-i directly, though maybe we can create a 
small library to share code and be sure that we won-t have to re-write 
20 applications when somebody decide to deprecate m-p-i.

MTP: I'd say that we should support the most basic services by default, 
so I guess that at least we should have: Music, Photos, Files

iOS: Pretty much like MTP.

Am I missing something ?