[Bluez-devel] bluez-gnome ui

[Teppo Turtiainen <teppot@iki.fi>]

Hi guys,

Let me start by saying that I'm a big fan of Bluetooth (6 devices and
counting) and of the work you are doing.

I am not a user interface designer, but I think that the current UI for
bluez-gnome is pretty awful: There is a Services tab that only geeks
will understand (what actually is a Serial service?), there are buttons
that appear/disapper and change contents depending on which bonded
device is selected, there are non-obvious icons (what does that lock
next to my phone mean? Is my phone locked?), there is no way to initiate
pairing with a new device, for some reason it is necessary to ask the
user for the class of the device when HAL already knows that, etc. I
tried filing bugs for some of the individual issues, but those got
wontfixed, so I thought I'd email the list directly. 

I think the current crappiness is even more evident when compared to the
brilliant design for BluetoothManager that was up at live.gnome.org. [1]
Is there any chance of working towards the more non-geek-friendly vision
presented on that old BluetoothManager page?

Thanks,
Teppo

[1] http://live.gnome.org/BluetoothManager?action=recall&rev=16



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