Hey, all. After reading your messages I have written my early proposal for this idea and before submit it at the GSoC website, I would listen some feedback from you.
You can find it here: http://docs.google.com/View?id=d785g6k_11gpccrpdx Thanks in advance. -- Paulo Rômulo Alves Barros MSc. Candidate in Computer Science Embedded Systems and Pervasive Computing Lab http://embedded.ufcg.edu.br/indexen.html 2010/4/7 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]> > Hi Bart, Paulo and all, > > Mardi, le 6 avril 2010, à 13:46, Bart Cerneels a écrit: > > Hey metalworkers, > > > > The recent discussion here and on melange have shown that UPnP is a > > Melange? > > > very interesting, but also a very large topic for a single GSoC > > student. > > Since GSoC is intended for learning and contributor integration rather > > then burning people out, I decided to make a new GSoC proposal. > > > > > http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2010/Ideas#Project:_Network_Device_Detection_ > > .26_Desktop_Integration_for_UPnP > > > > This proposal focuses on the Solid detection side and also various > > smaller integrations into KDE SC. Examples I can think of: > > - Plasma device notifier extended to list UPnP mediaserver shares. > > With extra info like IP address, netbios- or hostname, etc > > - Gateway listed in KNetworkManager tooltip, with list of forwarded > > ports and a direct link to the management page. > > A module wrapping access to the InternetGatewayDevice type would indeed be > useful. E.g. currently KTorrent and Konversation both have their own custom > stand-alone code (though derived from each other) to punch a hole into the > gateway (for NAT traversal), and Kopete lacks even that. > > > - Network neighborhood plasma widget. > > I would like that. And other like Kevin I also think it should be a > different > one to the one for the locally connected. I even would prefer it it would > show > the devices similarly to how the windows are shown in the tasks(/windows) > applet, just with icon-only mode. Kind of what the network:/ kio-slave > shows, > just as convenient applet, with added value. > > > The UPnP backend for Solid will test the architecture in preparation > > for other local network protocols: DAAP, Bonjour, netbios, ... > > For this it might also be interesting to see how > http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdebase/runtime/kioslave/network/network/ > could be enhanced as an alternative. The remote (and more service-oriented) > nature of stuff on the network might not really fit into the scope of Solid > perhaps. > Unless we expect Solid to e.g. deliver all http servers on the network. > Would > we? > > Cheers > Friedrich > -- > KDE Okteta - a simple hex editor - http://utils.kde.org/projects/okteta >
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