Bubbling…

I finally started pursuing my long-awaited desire to learn KDE libraries. As a matter of fact, I learned Qt because I wanted to code for KDE. But hey, here I am, kind of doing it after 1 year. Anyhow, let’s get straight to the point, I wanted to talk about Solid a little bit. If you don’t know what Solid is, take a look at http://solid.kde.org. In a nutshell, it’s a library which let’s you interact with the hardware. For example, with Solid you can find out if the system has webcam or not, if it has storage drives, and if it does, what kind are they, and plus, if you find the right hardware, you can do ’stuff’ with it, like in case of storage drives, you can mount it and unmount it.

So, enough with the introduction. What I really want to talk about is how awesome Solid is. I will give you an example. Last night, I started reading the Solid documentation from techbase.kde.org and I looked at the tutorials. I started reading them at about 7pm and finished at around 8. As soon as I finished reading the tutorials I was able to write a simple app which looks and finds the memory stick that is attached to the computer. It was absolute mind-blowing for me! I never thought I could do that kind of stuff! But today, I sat down (literally for hours and hours) and wrote a backup app, and I called it KBackedUp. For the actual backing up, it uses a script (http://code.google.com/p/backed-up) as its backend, so it doesn’t do the actual backing up, but it doesn’t the rest.

In the mean time, I also learned about QProcess and KDEUI libraries (KXmlGuiWindow is plain awesome) which I might talk about later. But for now,

Happy holidays!