[Pkg-bluetooth-discuss] Re: announcing bluetooth maintainers group

[Gustavo Franco]

On 7/12/06, Filippo Giunchedi <filippo at debian.org> wrote:
> Hello fellow developers,
> I would like to announce the creation of bluetooth maintainers team
> (pkg-bluetooth on alioth).
> There's a wiki page ( http://wiki.debian.org/Bluetooth ) where you can find more
> informations.
> The team aims to provide better integration between bluetooth applications
> (bluez and friends) and desktops and the whole debian system in general.
> I would like to have more packages and more people involved (we are using
> svn-buildpackage, svn repo at http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-bluetooth/ note
> that not all packages in svn are under current maintaineance).
> Comments are welcome as usual :)
>

[ Please Cc: me ]

Hi,

I've a suggestion for pkg-bluetooth that i've discussed previously
with Joeyh Hess. First let me explain about tasksel and its status.

tasksel is used during the installation to prompt the user which tasks
he wants to perform with the system he will be using (eg: desktop, dns
server, ...). It was improved to suggest some tasks for the user based
on some criteria (eg: system hardware). Note that tasksel can be used
after system installation too.

Now the news... I've been working on gnome-tasksel port to gtk+2 and
uploaded libnotify python bindings for our archive. I want to write a
third tool, that based on HAL will suggest some more tasks to the user
install, so bluetooth would be a interesting use case, IMHO.

The idea here is that isn't necessary bundle bluetooth, scanner and
$foo support with the desktop environment task. In the first boot if
the user plug his scanner that third tool can popup (using libnotify)
suggesting the scanner task install. If there's a bluetooth device,
same deal. You can ask "well, if there's a bluetooth device, why not
do that during the install? The scanner thing is different, it needs
plugging". The answer is simple, there's no HAL in d-i.

Closing, in pkg-bluetooth's side that would be good coordinate with
joeyh a new bluetooth support task. Just a set of packages that once
installed will support as much as possible bluetooth devices.

regards,
-- stratus