[Kde-hardware-devel] bluetooth in kde

[Will Stephenson]

On Monday 22 February 2010 09:51:59 Alex Fiestas wrote:
> On Monday 22 February 2010 08:41:44 Ozan Çağlayan wrote:
> > Alex Fiestas wrote On 14-09-2009 11:29:
> > > I'll try to work on the kio as soon as we've the other basic stuff
> > > supported, for example pairing of audio/modems.
> > 
> > Hi Alex,
> > 
> > Is there any work in progress for the kioslave stuff?
> > 
> > I'd like to look at it if nobody is currently working on it.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> 
> Yes, We hope to have it "kind of finished" for this week, today I'll send a
> few emails to this mailist explaining the current status of bluetooth.

FYI we had a meeting here at Tokamak (off-topic but most of the relevant 
people happened to be there) about refactoring around libsolid.   Sebas is 
going to give a more detailed summary here but I know you'll be working on 
solid/bluetooth soon so I am letting you know first.

The basic principle is to make libsolid more flexible, and make 
libsolidcontrol less flexible.

Libsolid: make it able to support multiple backends at the same time.  So 
whereas now libsolid supports one backend at a time, eg hal, and other backend 
technologies eg bluez and networkmanager live in their own Solid namespaces, 
this would incorporate each backend's Devices as branches in one tree.

This helps with the move from hal to udev+udisks+upower, since these are each 
independent interfaces and are subject to change.  It also adds the ability to 
make eg UPNP devices available via Solid.

Libsolidcontrol: currently has a frontend/backend abstraction like in 
libsolid.  We propose to move the functionality of libsolidcontrol into the 
single management apps that use it, removing the cost of maintaining 
frontend/backend.  We can do this because there is no binary compatibility 
guarantee in kdebase.

So what does this mean from bluetooth?   The namespace will be Solid, and when 
Kevin publishes his draft of the new multi-backend libsolid there will be 
interfaces for it to add devices to the Solid device lists.   AFAIK the logic 
will remain the same.

Will
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