Single Qt codebase for kdeconnect

[Albert Vaca]

Sometimes I use Windows and Mac, and I really miss KDE Connect on these
platforms. I would love to have KDE Connect in every platform, but having 1
client per platform is unsustainable.

Using KDE for Windows I once managed to compile and run KDE Connect on
Windows 7, even though lots of plugins and features were missing. It's
normal to find this problems when porting code to a different platform, but
I think that our approach here should be to fix this issues instead of
rewriting everything from scratch. This is definitely more difficult and
challenging, specially for different platforms like Windows Phone, but I
truly believe that it is the correct choice.


On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 4:23 PM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:

> 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
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