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¢. [1] https://christian.kellner.me/2018/04/23/the-state-of-thunderbolt-3-in-fedora-28/ [2] https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/Whiteboards/ThunderboltAccess -- Rajeesh