Review Request 123263: WIP: KDE Connect backend for Solid

[Kai Uwe Broulik]

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(Updated April 5, 2015, 10:56 p.m.)


Review request for kdeconnect, Solid, Albert Vaca Cintora, and Emmanuel Pescosta.


Changes
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Added KDE Connect to the groups. KDE Connect is not (only) Albert. ;)


Repository: solid


Description
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This adds a KDE Connect backend to Solid enabling us to show phone battery status in the device notifier, and have the phone appear in the device notifier like an external storage.

It is pretty synchronous at the moment. Any ideas how I could improve that? I guess when someone wants to get devices, it creates a new device interface and calls allDevices() or devicesFromQuery() immediately afterwards, so I cannot just do that stuff async and defer population? Or call deviceAdded for each of the initial ones once I have them?

It requires adjustment in the kdeconnect KIO slave so it can handle addresses like kdeconnect://org/kde/kdeconnect/123456 or kdeconnect:udi=/org/kde/kdeconnect/123456 (like mtp kio does) because all Dolphin or the device notifier have is the UDI. It also needs a new device action that matches "Portable Media Player" with the "kdeconnect" protocol, similar to mtp.

By adjusting the predicate in Dolphin's Places sidebar (and probably the file dialog) to query for the "kdeconnect" protocol, we can have its places automatically updated without having KDE Connect manually mess with KFilePlaces.


Diffs
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  src/solid/devices/CMakeLists.txt 9271ae1 
  src/solid/devices/backends/kdeconnect/CMakeLists.txt PRE-CREATION 
  src/solid/devices/backends/kdeconnect/kdeconnectbattery.h PRE-CREATION 
  src/solid/devices/backends/kdeconnect/kdeconnectbattery.cpp PRE-CREATION 
  src/solid/devices/backends/kdeconnect/kdeconnectdevice.h PRE-CREATION 
  src/solid/devices/backends/kdeconnect/kdeconnectdevice.cpp PRE-CREATION 
  src/solid/devices/backends/kdeconnect/kdeconnectdeviceinterface.h PRE-CREATION 
  src/solid/devices/backends/kdeconnect/kdeconnectdeviceinterface.cpp PRE-CREATION 
  src/solid/devices/backends/kdeconnect/kdeconnectmanager.h PRE-CREATION 
  src/solid/devices/backends/kdeconnect/kdeconnectmanager.cpp PRE-CREATION 
  src/solid/devices/backends/kdeconnect/kdeconnectportablemediaplayer.h PRE-CREATION 
  src/solid/devices/backends/kdeconnect/kdeconnectportablemediaplayer.cpp PRE-CREATION 
  src/solid/devices/managerbase.cpp eee4de5 

Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/123263/diff/


Testing
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With some crash fixes already pushed to plasma-workspace it works pretty well.


Thanks,

Kai Uwe Broulik

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