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

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

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.
> 
> GTK+ doesn't use separate pixbufs for those type of icons, but generates
> them on the fly with gdk_pixbuf_saturate_and_pixelate().
> 
> new_pixbuf = gdk_pixbuf_copy (original);
> gdk_pixbuf_saturate_and_pixelate(original, new_pixbuf, 0.8, TRUE);
> 
> And then set "new_pixbuf" as the image for the status icon. This will be
> a bit convoluted in the actual code as you're using icon names, and we'd
> need to 1) know whether we have a killswitch, and whether it's enabled
> and 2) modify the status icon to use the pixbuf.

as long as we have to poll the killswitch from HAL, this is never going
to get merged into bluez-gnome. I want async notifications.

Regards

Marcel