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 -- Daniel Vrátil www.dvratil.cz | dvra...@kde.org IRC: dvratil on Freenode (#kde, #kontact, #akonadi, #fedora-kde) GPG Key: 0x4D69557AECB13683 Fingerprint: 0ABD FA55 A4E6 BEA9 9A83 EA97 4D69 557A ECB1 3683
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