Protocol documentation

[tastytea]

On 2017-04-17 04:01 +0200
Markus Slopianka <kamikazow at web.de> wrote:

> 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.

Yes, I found that. Unfortunately it is written in a half-dead
language (Vala).

> 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.

I didn't find that one, thanks. I'll look into it.

> 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"?

I want to run it on low-end hardware and try to use as little ram as
possible.