On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Carsten Haitzler <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 10:05:35 +0900 Cedric BAIL <[email protected]> said: > >> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 2:07 AM, Enlightenment SVN >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Log: >> > e: Remove BlueZ module >> > >> > Kind of broken, with almost no functionality. Don't risk someone >> > releasing E17 with this thing. Hopefully I'll be able to rewrite it (or >> > find someone to do) before release. >> >> Uh ! It was working to enable bluetooth mouse. Miss it already :"( >> >> Write your replacement during next week !! > > yeah. i literally used it like 2 weeks back to pair my mouse. mouse still > didn't > work as i had to have some script run hidd --connect btdevaddr in a loop > (every > 5 seconds) to make it work.
hidd is deprecated for a long time. All you need is bluetoothd running. As I said, the module was broken and most likely in your case it was not connecting to the device, only pairing. > > i was mulling if we perhaps should not be making this work for the user as it > seems bluez only goes as far as handling pairing of the device. making the > device for example generate mouse events... is a different matter. what we need to do is only calling Connect() on the right interface. > > but i'm no linux bt expert - i've just muddled along enough to make it work > for > me. though my experience tells me that for a more novice user it would be hard > and for an average joe it'd be impossible to use bt devices with linux. :( at > least not with e17 - maybe gnome and kde do this kind of futzting for u. wait some time, this will be changed ;-). Ship some bluetooth mouse and keyboards to me and I assure you it will be even faster to get it working ;-) Lucas De Marchi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Got visibility? Most devs has no idea what their production app looks like. Find out how fast your code is with AppDynamics Lite. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;262219671;13503038;y? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
