Single Qt codebase for kdeconnect

[Aleix Pol]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 1:05 AM, Pavel Borisov <pzinin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 20.01.2015 02:27, Aleix Pol wrote:
>>
>> This needs investigation. I have reports that dbus works properly on
>> OS X, Windows, Android and BBX.
>>
> Yes it does. But as far as I am concerned Qt on Windows does not support
> dbus by default so it requires rebuilding. Anyway if it will work as it is -
> fine.
>
> Also, by universal client for everything I mean, really, if I will do that I
> will make it like that (I won't touch existing KDE gui as it is good
> already).
>
> BTW it is actually what I want to propose as GSoC project. And it implies
> sort of real changes because most plugins are highly dependent on KDE. For
> example, SFTP plugin uses KIO (however very slightly) . More important, it
> uses sshfs which is unacceptable on windows (it has its own port of sshfs
> and I will try to figure out how to deal with it probably), etc, etc.
>
> In conclusion, pretty much everything there needs to be rewritten (slightly,
> but still) in order to make it cross-platform.
>

I understand more the e-mails then. I'll be looking forward to your
application. I must admit though that I don't love the fact that
you're talking so much about rewritting, I want to read about
improvements, so if there's anything to be rewritten (and in fact I
agree the sftp plugin is a good candidate) please explain well what
you want to do. Sentences like "everything needs to be rewritten" are
bad.

For example, KIO is really available and working on Windows, maybe
there's something better you can do? What would you use instead? Is
ssh the problem? Or sshfs itself? How do you plan to integrate it on
Windows?
Maybe what we want in the end is not SFTP-kind-of-thing but actual
file synchronization...

Aleix