On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 12:29:30 -0300 Lucas De Marchi
<[email protected]> said:

> 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.

well it's the only way i get the mouse to work. :)

> As I said, the module was broken and most likely in your case it was
> not connecting to the device, only pairing.

did it ever work?

> >
> > 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.

do bluez doesnt do this itself once paired?

> >
> > 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 ;-)

aha! so you accept bribes? :)

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The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler)    [email protected]


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