SoK/2022/StatusReport/Ayush Singh

Rust Wrapper of KConfig

KDE Projects are currently predominantly written in C++ and Python since the bindings for other projects are simply not present or are not idiomatic to use. I am working on Rust bindings for KConfig KDE Framework. The bindings can be found here. As a consequence of this project, I ended up contributing upstream to qmetaobject and became a collaborator in that project.

Features Available

The bindings for the following parts are pretty much complete and have all the features:

• KConfig Class
• KConfigGroup Class
• KDesktopFile Class
• KSharedConfig Class
• KEMailSettings Class

Some work has already been done for KConfigXT like feature, but that is still in the early stages and not ready to be used yet.

Published Crates

The following are the links to the crates that have been published:

• kconfig
• kconfig_impl
• kconfig_compiler

Blog Posts

• Season of KDE 2022
• Bitflags in Rust
• Using KConfig with Rust

Contact

• Website