Bluetooth....

[Fabian Nowak]

Am Donnerstag, den 08.12.2005, 08:59 -0800 schrieb 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

hi!

using gnome-phone-manager and gnome-obex-server should pretty much
suffice displaying two icons in your systray and showing your connection
status (at least for linux on x86 haven't tried on bsd).

i suggest you talk with the guys from the gnome bluetooth project and
ask them whether to have a dialog option which would call this blue*pin
application popping up your desired pin window. (hint: use google to
find the project)

> 
> 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