Bluetooth....

[Auke Kok]

Philippe Brisset wrote:

> hello !
>  
> I am an super-satisfied-xfce-anthusiast-user.One from xfce-team plan 
> to write a bluetooth-panel-plugin humm ? ;)
> A sort of dialog-box to handle the end - user, by example when the 
> usb-dongle is plugged a dialog-box pop-up and he offer the possibility 
> to put the pin number and other trics...He will be great ! ...
> Anyway i Love Xfce4, with im you don't turn around the windows ;) you 
> Rediscover the purpose from you'r OS and.. this is not the goal of an 
> wm on GNU/LINUX ?



this is the type of thing that the Xfce team most likely will _NOT_ 
write. Here is why:

o  bluetooth should be supported by a low-level library or toolchain - 
not by a desktop environment

o  bluetooth implementations are OS-specific - Xfce is designed to be 
OS-independent

o  hardware interaction should be handled by a hardware manager, if you 
want a gui then you should either pick one that already exists and ask 
those developers to write an Xfce plugin, or write something like this

o  it's silly to write something which only handles bluetooth - there 
are plenty of other protocols out there - it would be better to write 
something generic to support ad-hoc connections (infra red, serial, etc).

In any case - The Xfce team is concentrating on the desktop environment 
and basic tools and libraries - too much for the small team that is 
currently doing all this.

So, you have read up to this. That's good. You can actually still do 
something about whatever you want to <have> on your desktop! Even if you 
cannot get it from the Xfce team - you might get it from someone else by 
setting a bounty or donating money to a developer. It also helps to 
*think* before you ask something - Santa looks if you have been a good 
boy, but coders need to see a concrete design plan, perhaps even some 
sketches or specs.

If you want something, by all means go for it - but please _help_

Auke