Re: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] Advanced support for bluetooth headsets

[Colin Guthrie <gnomemeeting colin guthr ie>]

Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote:
>   Perhaps most of this should be part of gnome-bluetooth. The only
> switch in Ekiga will be an option telling that you have a bluetooth
> headest, and gnome-bluetooth will be the one that should tell ekiga how
> to configure itself.

I can't help but feel you are correct.

I can't see why it should be necessary to modify applications to 
specifically support bluetooth. OK listening for signal etc. is perhaps 
a special case, but I would still strongly advocate a lower level 
abstraction.

My earlier post on this thread posed an example talking about snd-bt-sco 
and I now realise that this is not a great example of good interaction 
with BT headsets and that direct programming of the headset is 
easier/preferred. No problem, but I think the general architecture of my 
suggestion should still stand.

gnome-bluetooth is configured to allow working with a bluetooth headset 
and creates a virtual sound device that can passthru audio/mic to 
loudspeakers/headset/bt as appropriate (you could maybe just do 
something clever with JACK controls?? or maybe create an ESD compatible 
daemon??). No changes needed to eKiga or any other app programatically, 
just configure it to use your virtual sound device and the lower level 
stuff will take care of it.

Col.