Re: [Bluez-devel] Removing features

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

Hi Bastien,

> > > I was taking a look at the properties and applet in the bluez-gnome
> > > tree, and thought that some things could be changed to make it more
> > > GNOME-ish.
> > > 
> > > I've attached an obviously unfinished patch that would remove the
> > > "Adapter class" combobox from the properties capplet, and have the
> > > applet setup the class depending on the "system.formfactor" property
> > > given out by HAL[1].
> > > 
> > > If this sort of thing would accepted into the tree, I have some more
> > > patches lined up (including finishing up this one).
> > 
> > actually I am a little bit against a compile time option against HAL.
> > This should be a runtime check if HAL is available.
> 
> I can certainly make it both a compile-time and run-time check. Ie. if
> HAL is available at compile-time, but not at run-time, show the
> combobox.
> 
> Did you want to make HAL a hard dependency, or should it be optional as
> now?
> 
> I'll finish that up now.

do we need something? I thought they are D-Bus calls only.

> > The other thing is that this doesn't really belong into bluetooth-applet
> > and should be moved directly into hcid. However this might give some
> > crazy dependency chain.
> 
> I don't think such a policy should be in hcid, but rather in the desktop
> bits. (Currently, the bluetooth daemons are started a long time before
> HAL is, at least in Fedora, and Matthew Garrett's HAL bits need the
> bluetooth daemon running, so, yeah, crazy deps).

In general you are right, but tell that to the Bluetooth specification.
The class of device is really a per adapter thing and not a per user
thing unless we can assign specific hardware only to one particular
user.

Regards

Marcel



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