[Kde-hardware-devel] Major milestone reached for Solid

[johnflux at gmail.com]

Hi all,
  I want to follow up on that and announce a fully functional and
working network capable daemon in the solidstats branch.  You can talk
to it via dbus (qdbus org.kde.ksystemguard ) and call
getInstructions()  to learn how to use it.  It uses ksysguardd

JohnFlux

On 30/09/06, Kevin Ottens <ervin at kde.org> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> As some of you might have already noticed, Solid is part of kdelibs since
> yesterday. A few directories are still in the work/kdehw branch though. They
> contain the few test apps developed (namely solidshell and
> solidhardwarebrowser), the HAL and Powersave backends, and a temporary
> library called "solidstats" which is an experiment to bring ksysguard
> features closer to kdelibs.
>
> Those directories might be relocated in the future, I'll keep you informed
> about this.
>
> It means that now we're tied to kdelibs rules for libsolid and
> libsolidifaces.
> Binary incompatible changes are only allowed on monday there and we'll have
> to comply to this.
>
> But more important, it also means that libsolid can be used in applications
> from other modules of KDE (kdebase, kdemultimedia, ...). So pick you
> favorite
> application and add support for Solid there. The more we'll use it the more
> we'll have feedback for making the API better.
>
> Currently libsolid covers the following sets of features:
>  - Hardware Discovery
>  - Power Management
>  - Network Management
>
> A first backend for network management using NetworkManager is in the work
> by
> Will. If you're interested in contributing to this backend please discuss it
> with him.
>
> For other potential backends, I added a page on the wiki to list the
> efforts:
> http://solid.kde.org/wiki/index.php/BackendsStatus
> If you feel like adopting one of those backends, or if you want to propose
> more feel free to do it.
>
> So please update your kdelibs and work/kdehw branch. Happy hacking!
>
> Regards.
> --
> Kévin 'ervin' Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net
> "Ni le maître sans disciple, Ni le disciple sans maître,
> Ne font reculer l'ignorance."
>
>