Better Bluetooth Integration on the Desktop

[Dan Williams]

On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 02:47 +0530, Rogue wrote:
>  Hi All,
>  
>  A few days ago, I was trying to talk to some friends over Skype. And
>  was I in for a shock or what. I have FC 6 running on my Dell D810, and
>  I do not have an in-built mic. So i decided to connect my blue-tooth
>  headset to the system and use it for communicating, but I realized
>  that I couldn't do it easily!
>  
>  Then I tried connecting an external headset (wired), and ran around a
>  lot of articles to figure out that I needed to turn on some settings
>  in the volume-controls, and though i could hear what I was screaming
>  into the mic (back into the earphones) I could not get it to work and
>  by then i had given up and decided to use the landline instead.
>  
>  Now, coming back to the point, since both Windows and Mac provide an
>  easy to use interface when it comes to consuming external bluetooth
>  devices, I feel that we should also provide a similar interface.
>  Something that will help ease out the usability aspects of the
>  desktop. 
"Easy" is relative here, the OS X interface for using a device as a
modem over Bluetooth (ie, Dial-Up Networking) still has a ways to go,
and various 3rd-party software that I've used on Windows sucks too.  I
personally think we can do somewhat better.  But you're right, basically
everything Bluetooth sucks right now from a user-experience perspective
in Linux.  I shouldn't have to touch config files to set up dialup
networking.

Dan