Knowledge Base

The Solid Knowledge Base will be a place for people to add or check devices behavior reports. This way a user can try to avoid bad experience before actually buying a device.

Moreover, developers have a hard time knowing how every hardware device should be handled, whilst it is difficult for users to provide the necessary information to developers. Solid will provide the necessary tools for users to update the knowledge base, which will be an invaluable resource for application and Solid developers.

Take, for example, a user who plugs in a new device and finds that Solid doesn't provide the action she wants. A portable audio player might be reported as a generic "USB mass storage device", giving no options to transfer files to amaroK. The user can launch a wizard that will help her put a report about the device into the knowledge base. Developers could then improve Solid to make it aware of this new information, and users might even be able to automatically download the latest configuration data for misdetected devices.

This knowledge base will really be a service by the community for the community.