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LinArcX / kindd

A kindful dd, written in qt-quick.
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Any further developement? #9

Closed siduxdevil closed 2 years ago

siduxdevil commented 5 years ago

Since there has been no commits for 3 months, the question arises whether further development is to be expected. If so, what should happen next?

Background to my question is that I am writing an article on Kindd for a German Linux print magazine and would like to be able to advise my readers, if Kindd is worth the trouble of building the app.

I built the app on KDE Neon and it took quite a while to get the dependencies right. No newbie would ever succeed with that.

Thanks for your work!

LinArcX commented 5 years ago

Hi. First of all, thank you for questions.

Actually I have some ideas like porting the app for windows, but we don't have dd in windows. So maybe I should re-implement the behavior of dd for windows.

Another improvement can be writing windows iso. Currently if you try to create a bootable device from windows iso, kindd can't do that.

Theses are my plans for future. But also I'm busy these days. So pull requests always will accept. About packages for other distros, to be honest I only had arch, nixos and void before. So I can't package kindd for debian, fedora based distros.

Again, if anybody like to send pr in theses areas, it'll be great.

siduxdevil commented 5 years ago

I can list the dependencies now for Debian/Ubuntu, where KDE Neon and KaOS are probably the only distros shipping Qt 5.13.x at this point in time.

The dependencies (for KDE Neon, should be same/similar for Debian) are: git gcc g++ make qt5-default libpolkit-qt5-dev qml-module-qt-labs-platform libqtquickcontrols2-5 qtquickcontrols2-5-dev qml-module-qtgraphicaleffects qtdeclarative5-dev

Maybe I will build a Debian package when I find the time.

datalot-369 commented 4 years ago

It would be great if it becomes as Flatpak or AppImage. Please avoid Snappy at the most.

Gibbz commented 3 years ago

Id like to see support for imaging a dvd/partition to an iso file added!