Luca Niccoli wrote: > 2009/3/1 Jelle de Jong <jelledej...@powercraft.nl>: > >> Would it not be better to improver bluez-gnome? or work with the > > bluez-gnome is... for gnome. > > >> Nope there are no official command line tools for pairing, there is the >> simple-agent.py script in the testing directory of the git source, but it >> is not supported and does fails for most devices. good command line >> paring tools are on my wish list. > > While a command line tool is long needed, I don't see how a gtk tool > could be considered not useful. > As of now there isn't a single bluetooth suite that fits for people > that don't use Gnome or Kde. > This happens far too often, desktop-environment agnostic programs > should be the rule, not the exception. > As a Xfce user, more often left out in the cold than not, I would > greet with joy blueman. > Cheers, > > Luca
Not to make this a bikeshed topic, I do agree with you but I learned to look at other aspects to like, maintainability, support, dependencies, upstream, and development policy. bluez-gnome is just a name its not as bad as it sounds, I am a heavy xfce user and supporter[1] too and personally I think xfce sometimes uses to much decencies on there own environment libs (reinventing the wheel) I respond to these mails because good bluetooth support is very important for me and I care. Since I compile and make testing .deb packages for bluez and gnome-bluez almost monthly I can say the only gnome lookalike dependency for the bluetooth-applet is libgconf2-dev, its really not that bad. Remember about documentation for user and vendors that are going to use and support bluetooth. How is this documentation to look like? Will this be blueman? or the application provided with the environment. I would be happy to see blueman replace gnome-bluez. It will be possible to make compilation switches to make it work better on gtk only and gnome environments. So try to work something out with the original developers and see if there can be one good gtk tool that can be used on gtk only and gnome environment. And yes good command-line tools if offtopic but I just wanted to mention it because I will beg for them :-D I don't like create manual dbus commands and read the source to make them to just pair a device! Best regards, Jelle de Jong [1] https://secure.powercraft.nl/svn/packages/trunk/pictures/screenshots/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
