Hi all, while checking for some graphical tool to configure bluetooth on desktops other than GNOME and KDE (I personally am very happy with command line bluetoothctl, but I see the need for something more colorful ;-), I came across two projects: * xfce4-bluetooth https://github.com/ncopa/xfce-bluetooth * 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. 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! :-) Best regards, Stefan -- Stefan Seyfried "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." -- Richard Feynman -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org