GSoC wrapup

[Rob Scheepmaker]

On Monday 17 August 2009 10:08:41 Lydia Pintscher wrote:
> Heya :)
>
> GSoC is coming to an end and I or someone else from the admin team
> would like to publish a blogentry and dot article with 2 to 3
> sentences about every student and their project telling what was done
> and maybe a link to your blog for more details. Bonus points if you
> can make a cool screenshot that shows your work.
> Could you all please get them to us by Friday? That would be awesome. :)

Ok, I'll try to be brief:

For my GSoC project I've implemented the ability to publish/access plasma 
widgets over the network. Widget's can be announced on the local network 
through zeroconf and when accessing them, the entire plasma package will be 
send over in case of scripted widgets. All dataengines and services will act 
on the remote machine instead of the local machine completely transparent to 
the widget. You can now for example access a published nowplaying widget to 
remotely control amarok from another computer without any change in the 
nowplaying widget, or any of the dataengines/services (see screenshot). Of 
course security plays an important part in this project: all messages are 
signed, and the shell can decide which machines are allowed access to certain 
services, use the bluetooth like password pairing mechanism (enter the same 
password on both machines), or simply not allow remote access at all. I'm 
planning on merging my project into trunk at Tokamak, so it'll become easy for 
everyone to try it out.

Hmm, I've exceeded the 2-3 sentences ;) let me know if I'll have to make it 
shorter... Maybe I should just drop the security stuff...
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