Helping with KDE4 (valgrind)

[Greg Martyn]

On 5/11/06, Adriaan de Groot <groot at kde.org> wrote:
> Um, you're missing the point: KDE applications need system information; they
> need it on whatever system they are running on (even Solaris); instead of
> cluttering each app with #ifdefs, we need a library (in plain C) that
> presents *one* interface so that apps can get what they need. For app, read
> solid (I think) as well. Number of CPUs, memory stats, load averages, etc ..
> alol are commonly needed and all are implemented inconsistently in
> applications right now since we *don't* have a single interface to work with.


libstatgrab is one of the libraries that was mentioned last time:
http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/

Making a FD.o standard was also mentioned.

The thread began here:
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=113590801428997&w=2

btw, this was part of my SoC application :)


Greg Martyn