On Fri, 4 Jan 2013 14:29:04 -0200 Lucas De Marchi <[email protected]> said:
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Carsten Haitzler <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 12:29:30 -0300 Lucas De Marchi > > <[email protected]> said: > > > >> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Carsten Haitzler <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 10:05:35 +0900 Cedric BAIL <[email protected]> > >> > said: > >> > > >> >> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 2:07 AM, Enlightenment SVN > >> >> <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> > Log: > >> >> > e: Remove BlueZ module > >> >> > > >> >> > Kind of broken, with almost no functionality. Don't risk someone > >> >> > releasing E17 with this thing. Hopefully I'll be able to rewrite it > >> >> > (or find someone to do) before release. > >> >> > >> >> Uh ! It was working to enable bluetooth mouse. Miss it already :"( > >> >> > >> >> Write your replacement during next week !! > >> > > >> > yeah. i literally used it like 2 weeks back to pair my mouse. mouse still > >> > didn't work as i had to have some script run hidd --connect btdevaddr in > >> > a loop (every 5 seconds) to make it work. > >> > >> hidd is deprecated for a long time. All you need is bluetoothd running. > > > > well it's the only way i get the mouse to work. :) > > a bad way as you recently have noticed... > > > > > >> As I said, the module was broken and most likely in your case it was > >> not connecting to the device, only pairing. > > > > did it ever work? > > for pairing, I think so. i managed to pair with it once. but it never "worked". ie - pair mouse and then my MOUSE works. ie pointer moves around. pairing is pretty useless to me with a bt mouse unless the mouse actually does what it is meant to do :) > >> > i was mulling if we perhaps should not be making this work for the user > >> > as it seems bluez only goes as far as handling pairing of the device. > >> > making the device for example generate mouse events... is a different > >> > matter. > >> > >> what we need to do is only calling Connect() on the right interface. > > > > do bluez doesnt do this itself once paired? > > nops, it doesn't. well thats not awfully useful. > >> > but i'm no linux bt expert - i've just muddled along enough to make it > >> > work for me. though my experience tells me that for a more novice user > >> > it would be hard and for an average joe it'd be impossible to use bt > >> > devices with linux. :( at least not with e17 - maybe gnome and kde do > >> > this kind of futzting for u. > >> > >> wait some time, this will be changed ;-). Ship some bluetooth mouse > >> and keyboards to me and I assure you it will be even faster to get it > >> working ;-) > > > > aha! so you accept bribes? :) > > Even though you didn't send me nice gadgets to play with :-(, a new > bluetooth module is committed to E. Please check if it's working for > you. It talks to bluetoothd, so you must have it running (systemctl > {enable,start} bluetoothd.service will do the job, or the equivalent > in your init). yeah - its already running on all the machines i have that have bt hw. > Most of it was done by my colleague Lucas Jóia. kudos to him. IMO we > still need some tweaks to the UI, but I've just tested here and it's > working nice. ok - i'll have to play and see. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. SALE $99.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122912 _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
