Re: bluez-gnome ui

On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 21:02 +0200, Teppo Turtiainen wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> Let me start by saying that I'm a big fan of Bluetooth (6 devices and
> counting) and of the work you are doing.
> 
> I am not a user interface designer, but I think that the current UI for
> bluez-gnome is pretty awful: There is a Services tab that only geeks
> will understand (what actually is a Serial service?), there are buttons
> that appear/disapper and change contents depending on which bonded
> device is selected, there are non-obvious icons (what does that lock
> next to my phone mean? Is my phone locked?), there is no way to initiate
> pairing with a new device, for some reason it is necessary to ask the
> user for the class of the device when HAL already knows that, etc. I
> tried filing bugs for some of the individual issues, but those got
> wontfixed, so I thought I'd email the list directly. 

I marked it as WONTFIX, because I'm not the maintainer. I think the UI
is pretty rubbish as well, but it works, which is more than can be said
of the previous attempts...

> I think the current crappiness is even more evident when compared to the
> brilliant design for BluetoothManager that was up at live.gnome.org. [1]
> Is there any chance of working towards the more non-geek-friendly vision
> presented on that old BluetoothManager page?

Well, I did that original mockup, so I think it's good as well ;)

> [1] http://live.gnome.org/BluetoothManager?action=recall&rev=16

Cheers


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