I would also like to help but I'm not that familiar with kde code, so if someone would take the time to mentor me and push me around I'm available.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Alex Fiestas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alex@eyeos.org">alex@eyeos.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Sunday 13 September 2009 17:18:09 Andrey Batyiev wrote:<br>
> Hello everyone<br>
><br>
> I want to help in making bluetooth available under kde. I take a look over<br>
> kbluetooth4, than solid's bluetooth interface and found that interface is<br>
> incomplete and outdated. Is there anyone who works on it and who I can help<br>
> with it?<br>
><br>
> Thanks,<br>
> Andrey<br>
</div>Hi Andrey! is so good to see that somebody else is taking care of bluetooth !<br>
I'm the current maintainer of solid/bluez and kbluetooth, I'm just starting<br>
with this job so is the perfect time to join! Since I'm the only one working<br>
on bluetooth, I did my own roadmap (discussed in kde-devel and irc), but of<br>
course if you join into the effort we can change it.<br>
<br>
Right now this is what we thought:<br>
KDE lacks any kind of bluetooth support, and it is extremely urgent to have<br>
something working and full featured as soon as possible, To fill this gap, the<br>
idea is improve kbluetooth: cleaning the current code, adding new features<br>
directly into it (like a2dp pairing, modems, etc) and get it into extragear or<br>
kde. Once we have this piece of software stable, we'll have to export the new<br>
features to solid/bluez backend (so we've to write the new features having it<br>
in mind), if we do this right, this should be almost a copy paste. (solid<br>
really rocks).<br>
<br>
I'm unsure about work on kio_slave, the people really cares about have a<br>
kio_salve for bluetooth, so maybe we've to give to it more priority.<br>
<br>
Highlight of the last movements:<br>
-kbluetooth4 has been renamed to "kbluetooth". All other names such "KDE<br>
bluetooth framework", "kde-bluetooth", "kbluetooth4", "kde-bluez" have been<br>
dropped.<br>
-A new version is about to be released, this version is quite important<br>
because makes the current kbluetooth fully usable and stable, so we'll start<br>
to have something a bit more "serious". The changelog is in the svn.<br>
-In my local repo (git), I have started to work on the 0.5 version, which is<br>
the one to be included in kde, so big code refactoring is happening there.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://techbase.kde.org/Kbluetooth" target="_blank">http://techbase.kde.org/Kbluetooth</a><br>
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