[Kde-hardware-devel] Additional solid device interfaces

[John Hughes]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 3:18 AM, Adriaan de Groot <groot at kde.org> wrote:

> On Tuesday 10 June 2008 05:38:59 am John Hughes wrote:
> > The end goal I'd like to see, is when I open up Kitchensync, it is able
> to
> > determine through Solid whether a suitable device is connected or not.
> Now,
> > I'm sure it's possible to do so already by working with whatever raw usb
> > device info solid is currently able to provide, but I'd like to see more
> > support built in for these types of devices.
>
> Seems like an interesting and useful class of devices to look for / at. But
> that would require a little prodding and probing by Solid to find out what
> the device supports, wouldn't it?
>
Exactly. My idea was to use libopenobex to probe the device from within a
layer in Solid, similar to the BlueZ and the Network-manager connectors. I
just want to make sure I'm facing the right direction before I run away with
it!
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