Single Qt codebase for kdeconnect

[Albert Vaca]

That could (/should) be in the list of suggested topics.
On Jan 19, 2015 7:57 PM, "Aleix Pol" <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:

> 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
>
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