ANNOUNCE: GNOME Bluetooth Subsystem 0.2

[Edd Dumbill <edd usefulinc com>]

Application
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GNOME Bluetooth Subsystem 0.2

http://www.usefulinc.com/software/gnome-bluetooth

Currently only applicable to Linux Bluetooth devices.


Description
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Components for managing and accessing Bluetooth devices.  The aim is for
a
bonobo-based architecture providing Bluetooth services to applications,
hiding the trouble of programming the Bluetooth API from GNOME apps.

Further along the line this project will add Bluetooth control panel
type applications.

The software is in its early stages right now. Current features include:

 * Bonobo component to manage the discovery of nearby Bluetooth devices
 * Component will create serial (RFCOMM) connections for clients to
devices
 * libbtcl, a GObject wrapper for Bluetooth functionality

Currently there's one application which uses this component,
Phone Manager: http://www.usefulinc.com/software/phonemgr


Enhancements
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 * Rewrite to support latest BlueZ SDP API

 * Primitive GUI to explore the known devices

   http://www.usefulinc.com/software/gnome-bluetooth/#changes


Download
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http://www.usefulinc.com/software/gnome-bluetooth/#download