On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 06:36, Anant Kamath wrote: > Hi, > I'm planning to apply to participate in GSoC this year. > > I would like to implement a graphical KDE application and/or a KPart plugin > (or seperate dialog) for S.M.A.R.T hard disk diagnostics and monitoring > using udisks, smartmontools, libatasmart and Solid > Currently there is a GUI for smartmontools in GTK (GSmartControl) > I would like to implement a similar idea in Qt for KDE > > I want to create a kpart plugin / dialog which can be used in kinfocenter > to display the HDD health along with the other info on hard disks already > being displayed, and also use it as a perhaps a plugin for dolphin > > In addition to simply displaying the health/SMART info it would also have a > interface to schedule the health tests and configure notifications to be > displayed when imminent failure is detected, etc. > > Please tell me what you think > Is this too 'small' or unambitious a project for GSoC ?
The KDE Partition Manager already has some support for SMART reporting. [1] So you might want to continue your investigation there. Parker [1] http://blog.volker-lanz.de/2010/05/29/new-in-kde-partition-manager-1-1-ii-smart-status-reports >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
