JackTulli/Linux-explorer v1.33.0

1.33.0: Bluetooth Devices -- pair, connect and manage Bluetooth devices

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New

• Bluetooth Devices in Control Panel. A new applet, l2kbluetooth, pairs and manages Bluetooth devices. It is modelled on the sheet Windows XP added, drawn in the Windows 2000 style, and it works through BlueZ. It has three pages:
  • Devices lists your paired devices by kind (audio, keyboards and mice, phones, computers), each showing whether it is connected and its battery level. Add, Remove, Connect/Disconnect and Properties are there, plus a right-click menu with Rename. Double-click connects or disconnects.
  • Options turns Bluetooth on or off, turns discovery on (so other devices can find this computer), and sets whether devices may connect and whether to ask first.
  • Hardware shows your Bluetooth radio's maker, location and status. Its Properties dialog shows the radio's address, Bluetooth version and driver, and lets you rename the computer as other devices see it.
• Add Bluetooth Device Wizard. Welcome, a live search for nearby devices, a passkey page (only for older devices that need one), pairing, connecting, and a finish page. When a device shows a number to compare or asks you to type a passkey, the wizard asks you right on the page.
• Device Properties. Rename a device, let it always connect without asking, block it, see its address, battery and signal strength, and connect or disconnect individual services such as high-quality audio or handsfree.
• Bluetooth icon in the notification area. The session now starts l2kbluetooth --agent in the background. It answers devices that try to pair or connect while the window is closed, asking you first. Its tray icon opens the applet on double-click. Right-click it to add a device, turn Bluetooth off, or remove the icon.
• New icons. Windows 2000 had no Bluetooth artwork, so tools/genbticons.py draws the Bluetooth badge, a phone, headphones and a game controller.

Changed

• Run box: bthprops, bluetooth and fsquirt open Bluetooth Devices or the wizard.
• install.sh now installs bluez.
• Toolkit: programs can now wait on other file descriptors in the event loop (w2k_add_fd). This is how the D-Bus connection wakes the Bluetooth program.

Sending and receiving files over Bluetooth is not included yet. That needs BlueZ's file-transfer part (bluez-obexd).

curl -sL jacktulli.github.io/w2k | sh