Hey Nicolas, On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 14:12 +0200, Nicolas Trangez wrote: > Hija, > > I'm working on a SoC project regarding HID device handling in the GNOME > desktop. One of the targets is to make it easier to work with Bluetooth > devices: not the ones which got a docking station and act like any > normal USB device (there's no need to discover these, that "just > works"), but devices which need a built-in BT adapter (like the Logitech > Traveller I got here). > > For these devices, you always need to discover them (at least) once, by > pressing a button on them, then start some discovery software. Once this > is done, the mouse will store the BT address of your machine and pair > automagicly. At least, that's how I understood things.
Logitech adapters usually require using hid2hci, and we don't have the hardware docs to make this just work. I posted about this a couple of months ago on the bluez-devel list, check the archives on gmane.org. > Now, there needs to be some place in our desktop where the user can > start this discovery when he wants to add hardware. I was thinking about > these possibilities: > - An applet (or tray icon) with some "Discover Bluetooth hardware" > action connected to it. > Advantage: pretty easy to find the functionality as it's always on your > screen. > Disadvantage: pretty stupid to have a process for this and clutter your > panel when you only use this function only once in a while (< once per > month). Which is why the wizard (see the wizard/ sub-dir in bluez-gnome) will be integrated into the current Bluetooth applet (in bluez-gnome as well). > - Add a "Discover new mouse" button to the gnome-mouse-properties > capplet. > Advantage: euh, dunno. > Disadvantage: it's not the first place I would look for this > functionality. That would be nice, as it would allow both paths to the same result: - I'm adding a mouse, therefore I look under mouse preferences - I'm adding a Bluetooth device -> Bluetooth wizard I suggest you implement what you think is needed in bluez-gnome's wizard directly, such as a way to jump over the device type selection to go directly to the mouse setup. Same problem applies to Bluetooth keyboards btw. <snip> > Any thoughts on this, better sugestions,...? Integrate in the already existing Bluetooth projects, in this case, bluez-gnome. I don't think any of us want to maintain such a piece of code on their own over a period of time. We've seen what happened with libbtctl and gnome-bluetooth. -- Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list