Interested in contributing to KDEConnect

[Aleix Pol]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Ahmed Ibrahim Khalil <
ahmedibrahimkhali at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> Good news here :D
>
> I've managed to write a MousePad plugin for both kdeconnect-kde and
> kdeconnect-android, and it is working quite well, Also I've handled the
> single and double tapping on the phone and sent them to KDE using
> Aleix's suggestion XTest( Thanks a lot for the help).
> I think we can say now that we have a basic wireless mouse on an Android
> phone that works with KDE.
>
> The question now, How is the review process going to proceed ? I
> understand that the review board is working for Qt code, but is it possible
> to post a Java Android review request on it ?
>
> Cheers
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 11:40 PM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 8:49 PM, Ahmed Ibrahim Khalil <
>> ahmedibrahimkhali at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Aleix and Albert,
>>>
>>> I am about to finish the plugin and it works greatly when I move my
>>> finger across the device, but I am also aiming to handle the click event on
>>> the Android application but I cannot translate that into KDE.
>>> I'm thinking in using QCoreApplication::sendEvent to send click event
>>> but I have no idea what the receiver should be.
>>>
>>> Anyone has another idea ?
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Ahmed Ibrahim Khalil <
>>>> ahmedibrahimkhali at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm interested in contributing to the KDEConnect project, as I found
>>>>> it an amazing and very helpful project that I use daily in my Android phone.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am interested in developing using the phone as a mouse pad.
>>>>>
>>>>> My questions are, Did any one started developing this feature before ?
>>>>>
>>>>> If not, Is there a ready made KDE dbus interface or a library that
>>>>> could help me to use the mouse remotely, or do I need to implement my own ?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> KDEConnect mailing list
>>>>> KDEConnect at kde.org
>>>>> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdeconnect
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Qt provides this already. See:
>>>> http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/qcursor.html#setPos
>>>>
>>>> Aleix
>>>>
>>>> PS: I soooo want this feature :D
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>> What about using XTest, XTestFakeButtonEvent()?
>> http://www.x.org/archive/X11R7.5/doc/Xext/xtestlib.html
>>
>> Aleix
>>
>
>
Hi Ahmed,
I'm really happy to know you've progressed. Congratulations :D

ReviewBoard sounds like a good place for review, yes.

Aleix
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