Hi, I'm planning to apply to participate in GSoC this year. I would like to implement a graphical KDE application and/or a KPart plugin (or seperate dialog) for S.M.A.R.T hard disk diagnostics and monitoring using udisks, smartmontools, libatasmart and Solid Currently there is a GUI for smartmontools in GTK (GSmartControl) I would like to implement a similar idea in Qt for KDE
I want to create a kpart plugin / dialog which can be used in kinfocenter to display the HDD health along with the other info on hard disks already being displayed, and also use it as a perhaps a plugin for dolphin In addition to simply displaying the health/SMART info it would also have a interface to schedule the health tests and configure notifications to be displayed when imminent failure is detected, etc. Please tell me what you think Is this too 'small' or unambitious a project for GSoC ? I initially started studying the Solid source/tutorials,etc. to prepare for this idea : http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2012/Ideas#Project:_Easy_partitioning_in_Solid.2FDolphin, but was unsuccessful at understanding how/why an interface for partitioning could be made a part of Solid. I came to understand Solid as a framework to discover devices and get their properties, but not directly manipulate them .. so how is having a partitioning interface as a part of Solid justified? -- Anant Kamath
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