[Bluez-devel] More thoughts on bluez-gnome

[Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>]

Heya,

I was taking a look at the bluez-gnome source code on Friday, and this
week-end, as well as the interface in general.

I wanted to know what the target use of the bluetooth-applet (and
-properties) was.

The sort of thing that I'd like to see in a GNOME bluetooth applet:
- remove class of device drop-down menus (made a GConf-only option if
really necessary).
- add some integration into HAL (Software on/off, state restoration
after sleep)
- always display the bluetooth icon if a bluetooth device is present,
grayed out if the device is disabled (see above), removed if no adapter
is present at all
- more integration into existing GNOME software (gnome-vfs2-obexftp to
browse phones with Nautilus, gnome-obex-send and gnome-obex-server to
send and receive files).

The applet and the properties windows could also use a lot of cleanup,
codewise, to follow the GNOME style a bit more closely (separate the
auth/passkey code, make the "applet" into an object, use Glade when
possible to generate the interface).

Finally, I'd like to see convenience dialogues (as currently badly
implemented in gnome-bluetooth) for selecting particular Bluetooth
devices. Something aking to MacOS X' Bluetooth UI classes:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeviceDrivers/Reference/IOBluetoothUI/index.html
and
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeviceDrivers/Conceptual/Bluetooth/BT_Bluetooth_On_MOSX/chapter_3_section_7.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30000997-CH215-TPXREF110

If the plan of bluez-gnome is to cater for the advanced Bluetooth
user[1], or the users of desktops other than GNOME, then I think I'll
move my focus onto bringing functionality to gnome-bluetooth instead.

Otherwise, I'd kindly request a CVS account so that my trivial cleanups
can get in faster.

Cheers

[1]: who wants to enable his bluetooth adapters as routers, need to be
able to enable/disable notification area icons, or change device
classes, etc.


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