Single Qt codebase for kdeconnect

[pashazz]

Agreed. But what should I include in my GSoC application?

2015-01-20 19:39 GMT+03:00 Albert Vaca <albertvaka at gmail.com>:

> 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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