Protocol documentation

[Markus Slopianka]

On Freitag, 14. April 2017 22:03:20 CEST tastytea wrote:
> I want to use the daemon without KDE dependencies. It seems easier to
> reimplement than to remove the dependencies.

There already is https://github.com/bboozzoo/mconnect – an implementation of 
the protocol written using GLib only. It's an inactive one-man project but it 
may serve as a starting point.

There is also https://github.com/Bjoe/KConnectClientLib by a friend of mine 
which is a proof of concept based on KDE Connect's upstream code to run it on 
devices that don't ship anything but Qt itself. The code was never properly 
cleaned up, so Qt-only building could be an option at compile time and 
upstreamed. The code is three years old my friend had to abandon his work 
because of time constrains.

Considering that two people already tried to make a version free of KDE 
Frameworks, better ask yourself if you really need that. Do you need to run 
KDE Connect on some low-end embedded hardware or is it just for PC users and 
some esoteric notion of "bloat"?

Bye.
– Markus (who uses normal KDE Connect under Gnome with indicator-kdeconnect)