Re: Option for more-"gnomey" settings

Hi Bastien,

> As you know, I have a problem with a few settings in bluez-gnome not
> matching up with the philosophy/target for GNOME.
>
> Right now it's:
> - "Use HAL" settings, and associated device selection

you know that the class of device selection will disappear when  
enabling the HAL setting. I did that a few releases ago.

> - Sharing properties, which conflict with gnome-user-share (where we
> want to have most of the sharing preferences for GNOME, including
> sharing the screen using vino, etc.)

You can easily add an option to gnome-user-share for setting the GConf  
value that bluez-gnome is using. The whole incoming connection/accept  
thing should be handled inside bluetooth-applet.

And as I mentioned the gnome-user-share dependency chain of the  
distros is crazy. As long as it drags Apache + WebDAV into my desktop,  
I am against it.

> Would you accept a patch to add a --enable-gnome to configure to hide
> those settings away when bluez-gnome is compiled for use in the GNOME
> desktop? Or would you prefer a run-time option?

I prefer if you use the GConf values that bluez-gnome uses and move  
all Bluetooth related interaction into bluetooth-applet instead of  
hacking it into some other applications and bloat the dependencies.

If you really wanna shrink the settings of bluetooth-properties, we  
can do that at runtime with a GConf setting. I have no problem with  
that. I am against compile time options.

Regards

Marcel


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