Single Qt codebase for kdeconnect

[Aleix Pol]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 4:47 AM, Albert Vaca <albertvaka at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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>

Maybe a good first approach would be to have a GSoC that makes sure
KDE Connect works great on Windows/OS X/Gnome rather than going to
different mobile platforms that are admittedly harder.

Aleix