[Kde-hardware-devel] Using Solid

[Kevin Ottens]

On Monday 2 November 2009 04:30:11 David Hubner wrote:
> > Well, I see that as valuable information to show to the user on the
> > workspace side, still I meant "use case for an application in general"
> > (for instance I doubt a file manager, a picture collection browser, etc.
> > would have any need for such fine grained information).
> >
> > That's why we have the solid::control namespace in kdebase, for apps
> > which do some finer grained tasks, like the upcoming replacement for
> > knetworkmanager that Will is working on, etc.
> 
> In a general use case i can see why it would not be useful. I admit i am a
>  little in the dark here, I cannot find any API docs on Solid::Control or
>  the classes in the source in 4.3, is it being introduced into 4.4?

It's there since 4.0 in fact (but keeps growing, 4.4 will introduce remote 
controller support). It's a wee bit hidden though, so I'm not surprised you 
missed it. ;-)

http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdebase-workspace-
apidocs/libs/solid/html/hierarchy.html
 
Regards.
-- 
Kévin Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net

KDAB - proud patron of KDE, http://www.kdab.com
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