Hello,

>>>>I guess that since we don't have any guarantees that the device exists 
>>>>at any given point in time anyway, this makes less difference and we 
>>>>should just populate HAL regardless. I suppose I'm open to that.
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>>>>
>>>Maybe you could simply use the list of bonded devices to populate HAL?
>>>You could use the ListBondings method and BondingCreated/BondingRemoved 
>>>signals for that.
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>>>
>>This is how MacOS X populates its selection lists. They have the list of
>>paired devices, as well as "Favourite" devices.
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>>
>
>we also store the last seen (inquiry) and last used (connected) time of
>any device. This can be also used to populate the HAL list. For example
>it should include all bonded devices and additionally devices that have
>been connected in the last 7 days or so.
>  
>
In this case, I think it can be usefull to have same APIs in DBus for 
"used devices" than for "paired devices". You can find in attachement a 
patch that add ListUsed and RemovedUsed methods to hcid.
Hope this helps.

Regards

Fred

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