Heya, In the next couple of days, I'll be committing a patch to gnome-bluetooth which uses the new rfkill sub-system in the Linux kernel, which is due for inclusion in 2.6.31.
The current code uses HAL. The bug is here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=585765 This would fix 2 big problems, and offer a solution for another: - Firstly HAL doesn't give us updated killswitch information, because we'd need to be polling to get the updated status. This causes the menu items and preferences to show outdated information: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=578957#c5 - The second problem is that we don't know when the hardware switch was enabled, and would be trying to enable the device in software (which would utterly fail). Causes the same problems as above. Finally, it allows people with Bluetooth USB dongles to disable them without unplugging the device. If /dev/rfkill support isn't present, you just won't be able to enable/disable Bluetooth through the menus/preferences. Cheers _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list