KDE Connect for Jolla

[Andrea Scarpino]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 9:47 PM, Albert Vaca <albertvaka at gmail.com> wrote:

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To which I'm now subscribed.


> 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?
>

Yes, it sounds great!

I'll let you now of any progress in the weekend ;-)

Thanks!
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