Thanks for replying Kevin, I hope your having fun at aKademy.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2006/9/27, Kevin Ottens <<a href="mailto:ervin@kde.org">ervin@kde.org</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Le mercredi 27 septembre 2006 11:23, Cerneels Bart a écrit :<br>> Hi Kevin,<br><br>Hello,<br><br>> I'm Stecchino, a Amarok hacker, but have an itch to contribute to KDE<br>> itself with all the KDE4 momentum going on.
<br>> On that note: Recently Marco Gulino aka RockMan <<a href="mailto:marcogulino1@virgilio.it">marcogulino1@virgilio.it</a>>,<br>> the author of kmobiletools and I; have started a quest to get kdebluetooth<br>
> back to a level so it can be integrated in KDE4. This won't be a simple<br>> port because of the lack of a maintainer for the last 2 years or so. Some<br>> heavy refactoring is in order.<br><br>I admit that I don't know exactly what kdebluetooth is supposed to cover, but
<br>here is the thing about Solid:<br> - For hardware discovery we'll provide bluetooth device detection at some<br>point and peering;<br> - But we won't provide all the facilities needed to do something to the<br>devices.
<br><br>Since Solid is really a wrapper around underlying system, the actual dirty<br>work will be delegated to HAL which will get those bluetooth facilities<br>(someone is working on it, you might want to help, no idea if he's open to
<br>this). But we won't go further than listing bluetooth devices and the<br>services they propose.</blockquote><div><br>That is basically the main thing KDE bluetooth does right now, connect to a device and list the supported services. For this it uses the Service Discovery Protocol, handled by the sdpd daemon. The services themselves are not really part of kde-bluetooth because they are mostly transport protocol independent (see Obex). So it seems that part of kde-bluetooth is a Solid thing. Which is cool because we want automatic discovery of bluetooth devices in KDE4 programs. One use case: Amarok detects a mobile phone with the HID service and let's it be used as a remote control.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> Something similar: OpenOBEX has had some major enhancements in recent<br>
> versions and it would be great if we can use that library for be new<br>> version of the obex:/ kio-slave.<br><br>Well, regarding what I wrote above, OBEX is probably out of Solid's scope.<br><br>> You are probably wondering what that means for you?
<br>> I was wondering if something like kde-bluetooth and obex can be considered<br>> part of the Solid framework or not. Because I'm not sure Solids scope is<br>> that large.<br><br>Well, we got networking and power management, probably at some point we'll
<br>also have system statistics... it's quite large already. ;-)<br><br>Regards.<br>--<br>Kévin 'ervin' Ottens, <a href="http://ervin.ipsquad.net">http://ervin.ipsquad.net</a><br>"Ni le maître sans disciple, Ni le disciple sans maître,
<br>Ne font reculer l'ignorance."<br><br><br></blockquote></div><br>