Monday, 8 November 2010

Bluetooth in gnome-shell

Even though I'm still gnome-shell impaired (waiting on 3D support landing for my Radeon video card), I helped out Giovanni Campagna into getting Bluetooth support in the gnome-shell.

My work was to review Giovanni's code for gnome-bluetooth, and making sure that the gnome-shell behaviour matched that of the existing GNOME Bluetooth applet.

A lot of to-and-fro, but the gnome-bluetooth changes are now in, and waiting on sub-menu fixes for gnome-shell itself. Owen was kind enough to provide me with a screenshot for your enjoyment.

Bluetooth in the shell

This wasn't my first interaction with Giovanni, as, in another long-winded bug, we hashed out the volume control shell icon. This work is already merged, and lives in gnome-shell.
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8 comments:

  1. Anonymous8 November 2010 at 15:20

    Active On/Off is a pretty bad way to word the status of the bluetooth radio. I would prefer:
    Bluetooth Radio On/Off
    or the less geeky
    Bluetooth On/Off

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  2. Javier Jardón8 November 2010 at 15:38

    Nice, but maybe It would better have only one place to configure all your network connections? ie, wifi, ethernet, GSM, bluetooth ...

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  3. Bastien Nocera8 November 2010 at 15:41

    Javier, your mouse, keyboard, GPS, or Bluetooth headset don't use network connections...

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  4. Petar8 November 2010 at 16:34

    As Anonymous noted, Active On/Off is pretty bad wording choice. Use either State On/Off or Bluetooth On/Off.

    Also, it should say Connection On/Off and Visibility On/Off, if you really want to use the On/Off switches

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  5. Hylke Bons8 November 2010 at 18:36

    Please don't use a '>' for the arrow, type crime!

    Other than that: good work :)

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  6. Anonymous8 November 2010 at 19:56

    Also, use title capitalization for the menu item text.

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  7. Anonymous9 November 2010 at 09:33

    @Anonymous: I agree - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=634328

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  8. luffyd2 April 2011 at 17:26

    hadess, gnome-bluetooth and its dependencies, gnome-shell, pulseaudio-module-bluetooth and bluez seem to be giving me a strange problem.

    - i once unistalled gnome-bluetooth and it removed gnome-shell, it listed but my fault i didn't see, so on restart, gnome would fail to load, Luckily I logged in through kde and resintalled gnome-shell in the console there.

    - for the real problem though. gnome-bluetooth only works if i remove it and reinstall it. If I reboot, I'd have to do the same again to get it to work. Don't know if any of these bugs could be fixed or the dependencies decreased. Thanks. :)

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