Bug 102655

Summary:	make it easy to control remote kget
Product:	[Applications] kget	Reporter:	Enrico Ros <eros.kde>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KGet bugs <kget-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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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.