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How we work

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Description

BlueDevil is the codename for the project which aims to integrate the Bluetooth technology into KDE Frameworks and KDE Plasma Desktop. The project is composed of a few components each of them have they own roadmap and maintainer.

Project Status

The version 1.0 considered as stable has been released and will receive updates as minor versions (1.0.1 will be the first).

The version 1.1 is under a heavy development the roadmap can be found here

Documentation

Currently we're lacking a good End user documentation, help is needed.

How to collaborate

Bluedeivl is a KDE project, so we use the usual ways to communicate to each other, and to work together.

Project Page

Currently BlueDevil is under extragear/base KDE Project Page

Mailing list

We're using the kde-hardware-devel mailing list kde-hardware-devel

Roadmap

BlueDevil 1.1

The focus of 1.1 release will be add more Elegance into BlueDevil, for example by adding a better error hanlding, making things reacting as the user expect etc... There is not a release date for it, but can be expected somewhere close to KDE 4.6 release.

Status	Component	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	kio_bluetooth	Show the configured devices first, and discover in the background
TO DO	kio_obexftp	We need to have a better error handling, using the kio interface to report the errors	Alex Fiestas <[email protected]>
TO DO	Pairing Wizard	Use random 8 digit random PIN	Alex Fiestas <[email protected]>
TO DO	Pairing Wizard	Detect when a device can introduce the PIN	Alex Fiestas <[email protected]>
TO DO	Pairing Wizard	Support all Bluetooth pairing modes	Alex Fiestas <[email protected]>
TO DO	KDE Agent	Support all Bluetooth pairing modes	Alex Fiestas <[email protected]>
DONE	systray	Implement a better order in the systray options
DONE	systray	Show a overlay icon when a device is connected
DONE	systray	Add a tooltip