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@kde.org>
Lukas Tinkl <ltinkl@redhat.com>
Pino Toscano <pino@kde.org>
Alex Fiestas <alex@eyeos.org>
Rafael Fernández López <ereslibre@kde.org>
Alex Merry <alex.merry@kdemail.net>
Mario Bensi <mbensi@ipsquad.net>
Harald Fernengel <harry@kdevelop.org>

Maintainers:
Kevin Ottens <ervin@kde.org>

License(s):

LGPLv2