Re: Bluetooth ICS

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 01:14 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 16:54 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 23:53 +0200, Stéphane Maniaci wrote:
> > > Hi, 
> > > 
> > > Sorry if this question has been asked before, but I got a little bit
> > > lost in my researches on the Internet.
> > > 
> > > Is it possible to enable connection sharing via Bluetooth between two
> > > _computers_ ? One has an ethernet connection and a bluetooth dongle,
> > > the other only has bluetooth. Does the bluetooth spec implements such
> > > a possibility ?
> > 
> > Not quite yet, but we've got a feature request for it in bugzilla and
> > I've already spent some time thinking about it and discussing
> > implementation details with relevant people (Bastien, really).
> > 
> > The general idea is that you'd just check a "share my internet
> > connection over bluetooth" somewhere, which would poke NM to start up
> > sharing over bluetooth like any normal NM ICS works.
> > 
> > I have no idea when this would hit, since some of it depends on other UI
> > components like gnome-bluetooth or kde-bluetooth.
> 
> The code needed on the gnome-bluetooth side is one function, akin to the
> one in the gnome-bluetooth plugin for nm-applet to switch on PAN.
> 
> It's more finding the time to write the NM code that's the problem ;)

Great!  Where do we plug the NM code in?  Did we figure out a place to
put the "[X] Share my shit" checkbox, or is that going into the
bluetooth applet somewhere?  I think it's actually pretty simple on the
NM side.

Dan