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Subject:    GSoC Idea : S.M.A.R.T. HDD health info and monitoring
From:       Anant Kamath <kamathanant () gmail ! com>
Date:       2012-03-14 10:48:46
Message-ID: CAH0miJDmr5f=KkQiduCHX4D1BqEHyWOLOQh1MTwHxk7u11jPGQ () mail ! gmail ! com
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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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Hi,<br>I&#39;m planning to apply to participate in GSoC this year.<br><br>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<br>

Currently there is a GUI for smartmontools in GTK (GSmartControl)<br>I would like to \
implement a similar idea in Qt for KDE<br><br>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<br>

<br>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.<br><br>Please tell me what you think<br>

Is this too &#39;small&#39; or unambitious a project for GSoC ? <br><br>I initially \
started studying the Solid source/tutorials,etc. to prepare for this idea : <a \
href="http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2012/Ideas#Project:_Easy_partitioning_in_Solid.2FDolphin" \
target="_blank">http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2012/Ideas#Project:_Easy_partitioning_in_Solid.2FDolphin</a> \
,  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? <br> <br>--<br>Anant \
Kamath<br> <br>



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