Thunderbolt KCM

[Daniel Vrátil]

On Thursday, February 7, 2019 6:22:59 AM CET Rajeesh K V wrote:
> First, is this something you Plasma folks would like to have in regular
> 
> > Plasma
> > releases, or should I just make it an extragear project? If you think it
> > makes
> > sense to include it in Plasma, should it go to plasma-workspace, or should
> > it
> > be a standalone thing, like plasma-nm? It does have a runtime dependency
> > on
> > the Bolt daemon, which people without Thunderbolt in their computer don't
> > really need...
> 
> FWIW, Gnome has great support for Thunderbolt devices (see [1] and blog
> posts therein, and the design [2]). With more and more devices supporting
> Thunderbolt, I suspect it would be great to offer the support in Plasma
> Workspace. Just my 2¢.

The guy who did the Thunderbolt integration for Gnome also wrote and maintains 
the Bolt daemon [0] as a Freedesktop project. My KCM is talking to this daemon 
as well, so we can easily offer the same level of functionality and 
integration as Gnome.

[0] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/bolt/bolt
> 
> [1]
> https://christian.kellner.me/2018/04/23/the-state-of-thunderbolt-3-in-fedora
> -28/ [2]  https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/Whiteboards/ThunderboltAccess


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