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

Fabien Chevalier
2007-10-26T09:25:10Z

Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> 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.

Hi Marcel,

I didn't though error handling was that bad. :-(
And... yes i volunteer to work on this, so i'm gonna start to work on
generic error support in common/. :-)

Cheers,

Fabien