Bug 102655 - make it easy to control remote kget
Summary: make it easy to control remote kget
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: kget
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Compiled Sources Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KGet authors
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Reported: 2005-03-28 12:04 UTC by Enrico Ros
Modified: 2008-07-27 13:30 UTC (History)
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Description Enrico Ros 2005-03-28 12:04:35 UTC
Version:           2+ (using KDE Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources
OS:                Linux

My wish is that kget2 (the one on make_it_cool branch) will support an interface for remote control. In fact is should have a thread that listens for exernal connections and handle commands appropriately.

So if there is kget on the "PC2_ADSL", and I am on "PC1_56K", I can control the remote kget from the one on the local pc and:
- send transfers to the remote one (file->export->transfer list to remote kget...)
- take control of the remote one (file->connect->remote kget...) and administer it via the local gui. (The MVC structure permits that).
- watch downloads on the remote server (in additions to local ones).
- more actions of this type but they must be really easy usability-wise (just a couple of clicks and you get connected and you know what you're doing).

Go guys, Make IT COOL!!
Comment 1 Felix Berger 2005-03-28 12:20:48 UTC
Wouldn't the already implemented dcop functions provide at least the basics of this.

ssh remote-server
dcop kget KGet-Interface addTransfers(http://...., destDir);

I don't know if it's a good idea to turn a GUI app into a server. The next feature people might want then is to make kget run without X and or KDE dependency, so they can run it on a remote server that does not have an X server.

There are tools like wget and commandline versions of bittorrent for things like this.
Comment 2 Urs Wolfer 2008-07-27 13:30:32 UTC
KGet 2.1 has now a webinterface. Also, the D-Bus interface is very powerful now.