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Subject: Re: bluez-gnome: how to turn adapter off?
From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>
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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:18:54 +0200
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Hi Bastien,

> > Ok, so I remembered wrong ;-) How about adding a "disable this adapter"
> > option? Would a patch that implements this be welcome?
> 
> I'd like a patch implementing HAL killswitching. DannyK can explain to
> you how that's supposed to work.
> 
> I saw this as a single toggle menu item in the right-click, allowing you
> to enable/disable the main Bluetooth adapter on laptops. If there's a
> killswitch present, and there's 0 or 1 adapter (and the adapter matches
> the expected device) then the Bluetooth icon would shown grayed out.

so I added killswitch support to bluetooth-properties. Works pretty good
enough for me.

I like having a grayed out icon, but for that to work, we first need to
have some who actually draws it in all resolutions for us.

Regards

Marcel