[Kde-hardware-devel] GSoC, we can't miss it this time!

[todd rme]

On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Alex Fiestas <afiestas at kde.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 1:09 PM, todd rme <toddrme2178 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The modifications to Qt are done, all that is left now is on the KDE side.
> Can we find a mentor then? any ideas of who?

Not sure.  It would need to be someone who is comfortable with API
design, since this is going to be something new I think.

>> The problem is the android one is already done.  What about making the
>> kio slave and porting amarok and digikam to use the android and iphone
>> kio slaves instead of their own implementations?
> Where can I find the mtp kio? haven't found any.

http://quickgit.kde.org/index.php?p=scratch%2Fschmidt%2Fkio-mtp.git&a=summary

>> That might be a good idea.  I know kooka always asks what scanner you
>> want to use when you start it up, even if you only have one installed.
>>  You can turn it off, but by default it always asks.  Maybe the kio
>> slave could jump right into the scanner folder if there is only one
>> connected, and show you a list if there is more than one?
> Will drop an email to kooka maintainer and see what feedback do we get
> (though kooka is not within solid, maybe we should just propose the
> maintainer to handle this GSoC)

Okay.

-Todd