Katie, KDE Connect and Notes

[Albert Vaca]

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Hi Jens,

Thanks for the mockups, they look really neat! :D I'm forwarding your email
to the kdeconnect mailing list, so they can inspire more people.

On the technical aspect of things, making a separate Android app that uses
the KDE Connect app to communicate with the desktop is something that we
haven't done yet, but is for sure doable and worth investigating. Right
now, everything is centralized in the KDE Connect app itself. It would be
really great if we can have Katie as a first app with this feature so we
can then reuse the technology in other apps that work cross-device.

Is Marco or someone else working on this? My QML/Kirigami knowledge is
limited, but I can assist on the connectivity part and I'm sure we have
plenty of QML experts in the KDE community we can get involved.

Albert

On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 4:10 PM, Jens <jensreu at kolabnow.com> wrote:

> Hiya Albert!
>
> If you remember from Akademy I talked a bit about an application concept
> called "Katie" that used KDE Connect as a way to share documents where your
> phone replaced a central server.
>
> For example you start writing on your home computer, it syncs automatically
> via wifi or Bluetooth to Katie on your phone. You then leave for work, and
> sit
> and continue the note on your phone and when you arrive at work it syncs
> with
> your computer at work so you can keep editing the note on your work
> computer.
> Instead of unsafe (or cost inefficient complex server set-ups) you have
> your
> phone: an object you and most everyone on the planet bring with them
> everywhere as the central node in that network.
>
> The idea was to make a simple rich text editor for Linux and Android using
> Kirigami and KDE connect and the idea kinda meshed with a few people
> specifically Marco who is helping out doing the QML for it as well as some
> other things.
>
> So I've been spending quite a number of days on it so far, plotting out UX
> mostly and Marco has been doing some rough versions in QML to see where the
> issues where (and that has in turn changed the mockups due to limitations
> etc)
>
> So just wanted to email and show you the mockups I posted on Pholio
> https://phabricator.kde.org/M105
>
> /Jens
>
>
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