Re: bluez-gnome: how to turn adapter off?

Marcel Holtmann
2008-09-30T03:18:54Z

Hi Bastien,

> > Ok, so I remembered wrong ;-) How about adding a "disable this adapter"
> > option? Would a patch that implements this be welcome?
>
> I'd like a patch implementing HAL killswitching. DannyK can explain to
> you how that's supposed to work.
>
> I saw this as a single toggle menu item in the right-click, allowing you
> to enable/disable the main Bluetooth adapter on laptops. If there's a
> killswitch present, and there's 0 or 1 adapter (and the adapter matches
> the expected device) then the Bluetooth icon would shown grayed out.

so I added killswitch support to bluetooth-properties. Works pretty good
enough for me.

I like having a grayed out icon, but for that to work, we first need to
have some who actually draws it in all resolutions for us.

Regards

Marcel