How to detect a USB connection in linux/Qt

Question

i am extremely new to both qt and linux , can u please tell me a way how to detect a usb device connection and disconnection using qt in linux platform .

any help , doccuments, urls/sites where i can get the basic information (in detail would be even better) is appriciated.

please help

thanks in advance,

SAMBEET KUMAR

Answer 1

If you have a version available on your platform (most Linux platforms do), you can look into using DBus for notifications of things like that, and Qt has DBus support built-in via a variety of classes.