xfce-bluetooth

[Liviu Andronic]

Dear Natanael,


On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Natanael Copa <ncopa at alpinelinux.org> wrote:
>> - discoverable should be enabled temporarily for x seconds (60 or 120
>> or user specified, with 0 being always visible)
>
> It seems like this is actually how it currently work, I just don't yet
> have any entry for the DiscoverableTimeout property. (defaults to 180s)
>
One way to deal with this, similar to what Blueman does, would be to
set the 0 or 60 or 120 or 180s in a Prefs dialogue..


> It also seems like, once you have enabled the "Discoverable" property,
> it cannot be disabled, but have to wait for the timeout. Well, you can
> poweroff the bluetooth adapter it seems.
>
.. and then when you make device 'Discoverable', it would just respect
those prefs. One way to disable, as you suggest, would be to power off
the adapter. Another way would be to present the user with a 'toggle
button': hitting on it first would make device 'Discoverable' and
switch the label to 'Cancel discoverable mode' that when clicked would
hide the device again.


>> - "powered" seems confusing to me as a user; I'm more used to "Turn
>> bluetooth on/off". Maybe you could add a tooltip (if not already
>> there) to indicate "Check to turn on bluetooth device".
>
> Like this?
>
> [x] Turn bluetooth on/off.
>
'[x] Turn bluetooth on' checkbox with a tooltip 'Check to turn bluetooth on'

or 'Turn bluetooth on/off' toggle button. This could work too, I guess.


> This depends on bluez I think, and it seems like it is powered off by
> default. (which explains why my bluetooth keyboard didn't work...)
>
I see. Then the bluetooth manager  should always try to accurately
display the status of the adapter. Here it seems to me that too often
Blueman says it's on, when the hardware lights tell me it's off. I
don't know what's what. :)


>> - the few times I use bluetooth, I usually do so to connect my phone:
>> either to send files to it, or to receive files from there. Some sort
>> of facilities for this (default save folder, etc.) would be useful.
>
> This is functionality I'm also interested in, but thats a bit futher
> down the road. I think I'll try make it possible to pair devices first.
>
Sounds great.

Regards,
Liviu


>> Thanks for working on this. Regards,
>> Liviu
>
> Thanks for feedback.
>
> -nc



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