KDE Connect for Jolla

[Albert Vaca]

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On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 1:34 AM, Andrea Scarpino <scarpino at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi there Albert,
>
> I'm interested in writing KDE Connect for Jolla. I know there's a GSoC
about
> a multiplatform version, but unfortunately I cannot take part to this
GSoC.
>
> I'm starting by reproducing KDEConnect for Android architecture and
classes,
> or do you have some hint for me?
>
> I know I should wait for GSoC's end, but really, I want KDE Connect NAU
:-P
>
> Cheers!
>
> --
> Andrea

Hi Andrea,

Thanks for your interest :D Becoming more cross-platform is one of the
goals for KDE Connect this year and that's why there is a GSOC project
about it, but of course the more help we get the better :)

Even though, I would take a different approach than writing a port of
the Android client. Note that the core of KDE Connect is symmetrical:
this means you can connect an Android client to another Android client
or a C++/Qt client to another C++/Qt client. For Jolla, I think it
will be easier for you to adapt the existing Qt client, than writting
a new port from Android.

Ideally we should have a single project which can compile for both the
desktop and Jolla (and whatever else), just by changing/disabling the
parts that don't work or we don't need (like the KCM, or the Plasmoid)
and adding other platform-specific parts that we might need (like a
new user interface for handhelds, platform-specific plugins, etc.).

Also this is going to be increasingly easier because we are already
working in this direction in the frameworks branch by removing KDE
dependencies from the core components. In a future, we can have
a common repo with all the common components and then other repos
with the components for other platforms.

What do you think? Do you like this approach?

Albert
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