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

[Kevin Ottens]

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."
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