Collaborative Data Sharing in KDE Applications

The KNewStuff2 library adds data sharing capabilities to KDE applications. Technically, it implements the GHNS and DXS specifications. The library consists of three parts: the data management core and GHNS protocol implementation, the DXS web service handler, and the user interface classes like dialogs and buttons.

Application authors should not use all of the classes directly, which are installed only for the purpose of implementing functionality on top of KNewStuff2; instead, the high-level KNS::Engine class provides everything an application needs. Both upload and download scenarios are handled by the engine. There are only two preparation steps necessary before this class can be used: the setup of a GHNS repository, and the creation of a *.knsrc file which will determine all aspects of the application's KNewStuff2 usage.

All of the related information such as *.knsrc files, repositories and security can be found in the KNewStuff2 tutorial.

Author(s):

Josef Spillner <spillner@kde.org> Jeremy Whiting <jeremy@scitools.com>

Maintainer(s):

Jeremy Whiting <jeremy@scitools.com>

License(s):

LGPLv2