Hi,
* Stefan Seyfried
* gnome-bluetooth-applet https://github.com/City-busz/gnome-bluetooth-applet
The first is just in its initial stage (means: you get an Icon and some dialogs, but cannot do anything useful with it, yet). It had a short burst of development action after it was started but now is silent without action for over 6 Months.
The second is more useful: it is a fork of the gnome-bluetooth applet code from pre-GNOME-3.8, and only the applet code, apparently slightly forward ported to work with current gnome-bluetooth. This has some consequences: 1) it uses the well-maintained gnome-bluetooth stack (libgnome-bluetooth-applet.so.0, libgnome-bluetooth.so.12) for handling the low-level stuff (communication with bluez etc), the applet just displays an interface to gnome-bluetooth. In GNOME this is done by gnome-shell. 2) it needs gnome-bluetooth and friends, probably dragging in quite a big part of GNOME.
I personally don't mind 2), since I have installed most of it anyway and disk is cheap, if it saves me from implementing all the dirty low-level stuff (most of which I cannot really test anyway).
So what I would want to do is propose gnome-bluetooth-applet for inclusion in Factory and later maybe in the XFCE and other non-mainstream-desktop patterns, so that we can make bluetooth usable for more people out of the box.
I actually removed gnome-bluetooth back in 2012 from the XFCE-LAPTOP pattern when it grew excessive dependencies (mainly on gnome-control-center which in turn drags in tons of stuff). Nevertheless I think it would be valueable to have in Factory so people can easily install it if needed.
Right now I have packaged it in home:seife:bluetooth, it builds for 13.1 and Factory. If people interested in using bluetooth outside KDE or GNOME would test it and give feedback, then I can decide if it is worth polishing and getting ready for inclusion in openSUSE proper.
add obs://home:seife:bluetooth to your repositories and try it! :-)
Installs and shows up ok, I can't really test it though since I don't own any bluetooth devices apart from my laptop. -- Guido Berhoerster -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org