Solid

Solid is a device integration framework. It provides a way of querying and interacting with hardware independently of the underlying operating system.

Currently the following backends are implemented on Linux:

• HAL
• udisks
• upower
• udev

on MacOS X:

• IOKit

on Windows:

• WMI

See the documentation for the Solid namespace, and the tutorial on TechBase.

Examples:

• Tutorial 1
• Tutorial 2
• Tutorial 3
• Tutorial 4
• Tutorial 5

Just for fun: A Solid Song

Author(s):

Kevin Ottens <ervin.nosp@m.@kde.nosp@m..org>
Lukas Tinkl <ltink.nosp@m.l@re.nosp@m.dhat..nosp@m.com>
Pino Toscano <pino@.nosp@m.kde..nosp@m.org>
Alex Fiestas <alex@.nosp@m.eyeo.nosp@m.s.org>
Rafael Fernández López <eresl.nosp@m.ibre.nosp@m.@kde..nosp@m.org>
Alex Merry <alex..nosp@m.merr.nosp@m.y@kde.nosp@m.mail.nosp@m..net>
Mario Bensi <mbens.nosp@m.i@ip.nosp@m.squad.nosp@m..net>
Harald Fernengel <harry.nosp@m.@kde.nosp@m.velop.nosp@m..org>

Maintainers:
Kevin Ottens <ervin.nosp@m.@kde.nosp@m..org>

License(s):

LGPLv2