Single Qt codebase for kdeconnect

Aleix Pol aleixpol at kde.org
Thu Jan 22 11:42:55 UTC 2015


I didn't say that. For starters, I wouldn't adopt any QtWidgets-based
technology, but besides that I'd say Android+KF5 can be good friends.

Aleix

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Pavel Borisov <pzinin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh, I see, you're porting KAlgebra to Android. Interesting. So you think
> that there's no problem in using KF5 for every platform?
>
>
> On 22.01.2015 03:02, Aleix Pol wrote:
>>
>> It's not a problem to use KF5 on android and on blackberry it's fine
>> as long as you use Qt5 (Blackberry itself uses Qt4, so it needs to be
>> bundled).
>>
>> Please, let's not add FUD. It's definitely true that many of the
>> frameworks are not easily portable, but let's keep the technical
>> decisions clear.
>>
>> Aleix
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 9:11 PM,  <pzinin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I don’t think we should use KDE libs for other things than UI. Bear
>>> BlackBerry and Android platforms in mind.
>>> However, admittedly, some plugins should have separated versions for each
>>> OS. For example, battery plugin - the approach on how we can show battery
>>> info is different on each OS.
>>>
>>> About sshfs: Again, I do not want to break existing code and
>>> architecture.
>>> There is SFTP server in Android client already.
>>> Though everything related to sshfs in windows seems vague so I’ll be
>>> realistic: it will have the lowest priority for me (though there’s no
>>> problems with OS X - FUSE is available).
>>>
>>> From: Yuri Samoilenko
>>> Sent: ‎Wednesday‎, ‎January‎ ‎21‎, ‎2015 ‎6‎:‎21‎ ‎PM
>>> To: kdeconnect at kde.org
>>>
>>> About sftp plugin, portability and so on. I think that using KDE
>>> technology
>>> is greate, but I dream that mobile device can be integrated not only in
>>> KDE,
>>> but in gnome, win and so on. So I think we must aim on cimplicity of used
>>> technology to be able to not only port-as-is but write native application
>>> in
>>> simple way.
>>> So sshfs is very simple high-performance(in compare to KIO) technology
>>> that
>>> can be easily used and integrated to any UNIX-like systems, but
>>> windows...
>>> Windows port can have own File-share plugin, utilized SAMBA for example.
>>> The
>>> new KF5 framework split KDE on three layers according to diffrent level
>>> of
>>> dependencies(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDE_Frameworks_5). I think me
>>> must
>>> use tier1(dependent on Qt) and tier2(dependent on tier1) levels in
>>> kde-connect to reach simplicity and portability. So Kded and other
>>> runtime
>>> services must be used only for native integration(to KDE, Gnome) and so
>>> on.
>>>
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>
>
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