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Re: RFC- Having a bluetooth service to handle pairing

 


On 29.07.2015 15:38, Tony Espy wrote:
> On 07/28/2015 01:12 PM, Michael Zanetti wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 28.07.2015 18:06, Simon Busch wrote:
>>> On 28.07.2015 17:57, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
>>>> Le 28/07/2015 17:37, Simon Busch a écrit :
>>>>>
>>>>> So the service would show the UI or is this then offloaded to the
>>>>> bluetooth indicator?
>>>>>
>>>>> regards,
>>>>> Simon
>>>>
>>>> Good question, I've no idea about at the moment. I guess random
>>>> services
>>>> can't pop a dialog under Mir so the service would either need to be a
>>>> trusted helper or we need to maybe have the UI as part of unity8 and
>>>> the
>>>> service talking to it...
>>>
>>> I would never place such a thing in a service component. Couldn't this
>>> whole part be placed in indicator-network?
>>>
>>> I remember the telephony popups and this would be very similar so you
>>> know which component handles those? Is it unity8 or the telephony
>>> indicator?
>>
>> The incoming call and the wifi password entry are handled through the
>> notification system. Seems like the Bluetooth case would be just the
>> same, no?
> 
> So the indicator gets told by NM that secrets are required, and this in
> turn uses the notification system (via DBus?) to pop up the dialog,
> which then in turn passes the secrets back to the indicator(-service?)
> via DBus?

yes, that's how it works.

> 
> /t
> 
> 

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