[Kde-extra-gear] RFC: Replacing kdebluetooth with kdebluetooth-dbus-integration-branch

[Kevin Krammer]

On Thursday 31 May 2007, Daniel Gollub wrote:
> Hi,
>
> since few month there is a port/rewrite[2] of kdebluetooth[1] which makes
> use of the BlueZ DBUS Interface. The main goal of this branch was avoiding
> any linking against bluez-libs and support the latest features of the BlueZ
> DBUS Interface. Since bluez-utils provides a DBUS Interface there is an
> issue with kdebluetooth and pairing Bluetooth devices. bluez-utils requires
> a application which acts as "Passkey Agent" and register via DBUS to the
> bluez-utils dameon (hcid). The Agent gets triggered if there is any pairing
> request.

As far as I understand without this it will not be possible to pair any new 
devices, right?

> Beside the Passkey Agent implementation the kdebluetooth-dbus-integration
> got some other changes:
>
> - libkbluetooth got rewritten and wraps the entire BlueZ DBUS API

Must have been quite some work without using the Qt3 D-Bus bindings

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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