Making it possible to use the functionality outside of KDE applications is the entire point of splitting it into a bunch of standalone libraries. http://api.kde

Making it possible to use the functionality outside of KDE applications is the entire point of splitting it into a bunch of standalone libraries. http://api.kde.org/frameworks-api/frameworks5-apidocs/ http://api.kde.org/frameworks-api/frameworks5-apidocs/ says Solid is supported on Linux, Windows and OS X, so I assume they've just implemented all of the platform-specific versions needed.