Re: [Bluez-users] GNOME bluez applet request

Marcel Holtmann
2006-09-24T16:55:05Z

Hi Reinout,

> As part of the Bluetooth support in Mandriva Linux 2007, which will be
> released shortly, the GNOME bluez applet is required. "Applet" is a bit
> of a misnomer here, because the icon settles in the notification area.
> Once activated, it stays there and the only thing it does is showing
> discoverability status changes.
>
> I would like to point out that it goes against the GNOME Human Interface
> Guidelines to display a notification icon perpetually.[1] The reasoning
> behind this is that the notification area is designed to inform the user
> of important events, and when lots of notification icons are displayed
> at the same time, this waters down the primary function of the
> notification area.

the CVS version of bluez-gnome has an option (compile time) to hide the
icon, when no adapter is attached. This should become a GConf option,
but it hasn't been integrated yet. Feel free to send patches.

> In fact there is another bluetooth-related icon in my notification area
> that spends 99,9% of its time doing nothing, for which I've filed a bug
> already.[2] Is there a bug tracker for bluez where I could file a
> request to only display the notification icon for important events?

The mailing list is the correct of addressing this.