[Opensync-users] Re: Compatibility with Solid?

[Hans B. <han...@gm...>]

One more thing: you can check out Solid on http://solid.kde.org

Hans

2006/5/20, Hans Bakker <han...@gm...>:
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> From: Hans Bakker <han...@gm...>
> Date: 20-mei-2006 18:18
> Subject: Fwd: [Opensync-users] Compatibility with Solid?
> To: ope...@li...
>
>
> Solid is the hardware detection library that will be used in the
> upcoming KDE 4. Solid depends on several backends, so that will make
> it not suitable for you. Maybe you could arrange something so that
> people can use Solid as a backend for OpenSync when they use KDE 4? It
> would make the hardware handling more consistent, I think.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Hans
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Armin Bauer <arm...@de...>
> Date: 20-mei-2006 15:55
> Subject: Re: [Opensync-users] Compatibility with Solid?
> To: Hans Bakker <han...@gm...>
> Cc: ope...@li...
>
>
> Hi Hans,
>
> Hans Bakker wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > today I read the article about OpenSync on kde.org (in the Dot) and
> > Tobias mentioned that he'd like to have a hardware detection
> > mechanism. It sounded to me as if you wanted to write it yourself.
> > Please, don't forget that the people of Solid (solid.kde.org) are
> > doing fantastic work by making a hardware detection library, and that
> > you maybe could use it instead of writing such code yourself.
>
> I dont know what solid can do exactly. So ill just explain what opensync
> would need:
>
> OpenSync would need to monitor a variety of connection types like usb,
> bluetooth, serial (if possible), irda and so on. if opensync detects a
> device it would try to detect what type of device it sees exactly
> (manufacturer, model, version, identifier). based on this information it
> would lookup the device in a database to see what options are needed to
> make the device work.
>
> Do you know if solid would be capable of helping with this task? Another
> issue: OpenSync is independent from desktops and X11. so it cannot use
> anything that depends on such things.
>
> Best Regards,
> Armin
>
> >
> > Keep up the good work.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Hans Bakker
> >
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