On Sunday 07 April 2013 10:34:43 Matthew McKeen wrote: > I know about the other integration utilities out there that exist, but my > idea was doing integration directly into the plasma desktop. For > example, notification would show up in the notifications area, and > battery information could be seen from the device manager. I could > even write up such things as allowing mobile calls from the desktop > and SMS messages given the time. > > Other utilities that require ADB are a pain to setup due to that hurdle, > and some require root access. > > Others are just a web UI running off the Android phone and don't > integrate into the desktop nearly as well. > > Hopefully another outcome of this project could be an abstraction for > integrating other devices into the desktop this way as well. > > In light of the other options do people still like the idea? How likely is > it to get approved if I do go ahead with the report (assuming that KDE does > indeed get accepted into GSOC :) ) ? > > If people still like the idea, I think that I will base my proposal on this. > > Thanks again, > Matthew McKeen > > >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe > >> <<
Interesting idea. If you develop it do it with Qt. Qt will support all major mobile platforms in the near future (except Windows Phone, thanks to Microsoft). QtMobility should provide all the data you need. Regards Alexander
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