On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Mark <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 8:25 PM, todd rme <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:33 AM, tushar mehta <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > >> > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> > From: tushar mehta <[email protected]> >> > Date: Mon, May 2, 2011 at 9:25 PM >> > Subject: My application for Season of KDE 2011 >> > To: [email protected] >> > >> > >> > Hello all :) >> > >> > I applied for the GSoC-2011 for KIO application but did get selected for >> it. >> > I am still looking for project in this summer in KDE. >> > >> > I have no specific project in my mind. I don't know which projects are >> > allocated >> > to students for GSoC-2011 so any project appropriate for me according to >> my >> > profile >> > I can work on. >> > >> > If any project which is not related to KDE or any other project which >> fits >> > to my profile >> > and any mentor wants me to work I can work on it. >> > >> > I would like to prefer for project in which system programming is >> involved. >> > I have no experience in graphics side programming. >> > Very little experience in scripting and web site development. >> > >> > I am good at C and C++. >> > >> > Any system programming related project will be perfect for me :) >> > >> > My specific interest includes kernel programming( I am beginner in it :) >> ) >> > To explore more about my interest I did many projects on Linux based >> > Operating System from my UG only. >> > >> > Here are some area on which I have worked till date: >> > - I worked as an embedded engineer for 1.5 years in >> > eInfochips.(http://www.einfochips.com) >> > - During my job I made Linux Ethernet driver for DaVinci based SoC. >> > - I also worked on network protocols like IGMPv3 as part of protocol >> > verification project. >> > >> > I did my UG( Computer Science as Major ) and currently I am doing >> > my M.Tech ( Software Engineering as Major ) >> > in International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, India. >> > >> > During My 1st and 2nd Semester I did following projects: >> > - Made Chromium secure live USB by removing hard disk driver >> > from it and made appropriate changes to make it bootable via USB. >> > - I have also coded one Linux kernel module which was keeping track of >> IPC >> > object(i.e. Semaphore) waiting process queue. >> > >> > Here is the major projects details and some source code that I have done >> > till: >> > http://crocodoc.com/D9wE6G >> > http://crocodoc.com/6ZfQ0a >> > >> > I am planing to take advanced operation system as my one of the main >> > subject. So if I am getting >> > any project related to it, I can talk to my professor and can request >> him to >> > consider it >> > as project elective. So that I can work on it for next 6 month also. >> > >> > I would like to work for any project that is appropriate according to my >> > profile. >> > If there are any other projects available then also I am open to work >> for >> > it. >> > >> > I can also do work for any application. >> > >> > I like to work for open source and want to explore this world. >> > I am expecting from this project a good learning experience plus a good >> > bridge >> > between open source organization and my institute. >> > >> > Let me know what is I need to do further. >> >> >> Another potential KIO project: fuse support or some sort of mounting >> of KIO slaves. Currently only KDE applications support kio slaves. >> GNOME applications and commandline applications cannot use it. Having >> KIO slaves automatically mounted somewhere so they can ba accessed by >> non-KDE applications would help interporability a lot. GIO (gnome's >> equivalent) already does this (mounting them in a hidden directory). >> I am not sure what the best approach to this would be, though. There >> was some work done on this in the KIO-fuse project, but it seems to >> have been abandoned. >> >> -Todd >> > > Hi, > > Just a suggestion here. When i want to access my network share on the > command line i usually use dolphin first to see where it is for the folder > structure and then use mount -t cifs to access it on the console. Please do > not mount it in hidden folders but just in the places where mounts belong in > /mnt or /media since that would make it really usable on the command line as > well. > > Btw. How is dolphin (thus KIO) handling network shares right now? Isn't it > mounted somewhere already? > I don't have a lot of spare time but i do want to work on this if possible > but i'm guessing it's to hard and to much for just a spare time project so > don't expect anything. > > Regards, > Mark >
For who wants information about the existing KioFuse project (dead?) : http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KioFuse
