Re: [Bluez-devel] Bluez DBUS API usuability regarding end user experience

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

Hi Fabien,

> I have a (kind of) formal request to ask to the Bluez project.
> 
> I'm basically trying to use the Bluez API to design a user friendly 
> device that will have bluetooth functionnality.
> Speeking of a user friendly device, i'm thinking of two things i wanna have:
>    - the end user bluetooth feature should work most of the time, which
> means it will have to be robust and not throw errors most of the time.
>    - When something goes wrong, the end user should only be presented 
> with error messages he can understand and actually act upon. If the 
> message is too cryptic, then a generic placeholder would be use instead 
> of a low level message. One of the first non cryptic messages i think of 
> would be a "Device unreachable : please check your bluetooth device is 
> powered on" message :-)

feel free to improve the error messages. We haven't spend enough time
with them yet. There were other issues that needed to be addressed
first. Also the error support should made generic and reside in common/.
So if you wanna work on it, send patches.

Regards

Marcel



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