[Bluez-devel] bluez-gnome ui
From: Teppo Turtiainen <hidden>
Date: 2008-01-16 19:02:47
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 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? Thanks, Teppo [1] http://live.gnome.org/BluetoothManager?action=recall&rev=16 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bluez-devel mailing list Bluez-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bluez-devel