various errors we have are not actual errors but mostly information or
debug or status messages, so don't use ERR or just don't do the thing
that triggers it as it's useless. This leads to a less
noisy/error-like start output. cleaner for a release for sure.
i added 2 more device specific options, so i had to move all of the
device controls to an expandable button set. it's not brilliant
actually. the icons are poor and these probably should become toggle
like states rather than a button with an action. it's just not that
intuitive. this i think needs more theme styles in elm core theme
though, so for now keep what's there. but this was necessary due to
the ever expanding set to keep space usage sane.
now the 2 features are "force connect" for any device that is
discovered and responds to pings - connect to it if not connected.
this seems to not always work and maybe this should eventually be
removed, but this leads to there needing to be config per device so we
now have config storage for that like adapters.
the other feature which is much more interesting is the unlock
feature. this means if that bt device is around and responds to pings,
e will unlock (and only explicit manual locking will lock it), but
when that bt device stops responding to pings, e will lock. you could
use your phone, or smartwatch or any other bt device you have on your
all the time as some unlock device.
this required the fixing of the l2ping support in e_sys and i've fixed
it to properly work now and added an optional timeout value as input.
the unlock feature uses this and it pings bt devices on a frequency
that depends on e's powersave state which is dependent on if on ac, or
battery and what battery level is if you have the battery module
running. a handy feature to have just there at the click of a button.
i've kept the printf logging in for now so people trying it out get
some semblance of logging and state so they could figure out why
things are doing what they do and maybe debug it more easily.
so users will be mucho displeased and bewildered when the bt adatper
is powered on but nothing happens... it ends up that with some bt adatpers
it will be rfkill blocked by default. this is highly unfriendly. at
least if you have bluez5 module loaded and configured the adatper to
be powered on... i see no reason why it shouldn't be unblocked if the
adatper is powered on. i have considerted making it an option but for
now can't think of good reasons to really do that.
Summary:
bluez4 support is now basically dead. nothing ships it anymore. bluez5
is a new api that is rather different so new code. also a new gui with
more complete features etc.
not everything is done as i'd like. need:
1. many more icons for device types (60-70 maybe?)
2. a few specific custom icons for some action buttons (like
pair/unpair)
3. icons for group headers
4. gadget status - the gagdte itself displays zero status. it's a
button to display a popup. that's all.
Reviewers: zmike!
Subscribers: devilhorns, cedric
Tags: #enlightenment-git
Differential Revision: https://phab.enlightenment.org/D6148
Elyes HAOUAS
Carsten Haitzler