From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: BlueZ development <bluez-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bluez-devel] bluez-gnome: No GUI way to switch from "off" mode
Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 08:45:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1178261152.25425.32.camel@violet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1178235137.3158.177.camel@cookie.hadess.net>
Hi Bastien,
> > > Not quite sure if this was intended or not ... attachted is the suggested
> > > change by Stanislav.
> >
> > Here is an alternative patch. The same improvement but different GUI
> > (see attached screenshots). I have changed second checkbox label.
> >
> > Please decide what looks more intuitive and check-in.
>
> This should optionally (ie. if HAL is available at compile and run-time)
> use the new HAL API that allows to enable/disable builtin Bluetooth
> devices completely (ie. not just not configured to accept anything, but
> completely disabled, unplugged, and not consuming one bit of power).
>
> The HAL API is pretty straight forward:
> http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/hal-spec/hal-spec.html#device-properties-killswitch
> and
> http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/hal-spec/hal-spec.html#interface-device-killswitch
>
> It's implemented for Sony and Dell laptops, with another opened RFE for
> IBM laptops:
> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10053
>
> It should be dead-easy to implement for someone with access to an IBM
> laptop (unlike me).
the off operation doesn't make any real sense for desktop system. It is
mainly there for embedded systems without HAL or where the kernel driver
has to put the device into deep-sleep mode.
An integration with HAL's killswitch is the correct way.
Regards
Marcel
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-30 15:16 [Bluez-devel] bluez-gnome: No GUI way to switch from "off" mode Stanislav Brabec
2007-04-30 19:38 ` Daniel Gollub
2007-05-03 17:25 ` Stanislav Brabec
2007-05-03 23:32 ` Bastien Nocera
2007-05-04 6:45 ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
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