Single Qt codebase for kdeconnect

[Albert Vaca]

Sshfs could be easily replaceable by kiossh. But anyway I do not think it's
time to focus on specific plugins yet!! The first step is to make the core
part work well (discovery, pairing, encryption...).
On Jan 19, 2015 11:10 PM, "Pavel Zinin" <pzinin at gmail.com> wrote:

> By rewriting I mean only necessary changes. After all I do not want break
> everything and change architecture. So I would prefer sticking to sshfs
> And I must admit that I am rare windows user: KDE is second to none since
> 2008 =)
>
> I will eventually take a look at sshfs version for windows and figure out
> how to leverage it.. as I know it is not direct port from fuse but rather
> based on Dokan.net. I will try to cover more details in the actual
> proposal.
>
>
>
> On 20 January 2015 06:57:26 EET, 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 exis
>>>>>  ting
>>>>> 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 w
>>>>  hat
>>>>  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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