Re: bluez-gnome wizard deficiencies make it mostly useless

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On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, Bastien Nocera wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 11:43 +0100, Sebastian Spaeth wrote:
> <snip>

> That wouldn't work, a lot of devices will get out of pairing mode after
> an unsuccesful pairing.

It may be just my fumble fingers, but I think with my Motorola HT-820 
headset you have to exit from pairing mode (power cycle) and re-enter if 
you botch the 0000.

> My solution would be to have a button at the bottom of the device
> selection page called "PIN options" (or similar). The button would popup
> a dialogue with options:
> [X] Automatic PIN selection
> 
> [ ] Force a random PIN number
> 
> [ ] Use fixed PIN code:
>         [X] '0000' (most headsets, mice and GPS devices)
>         [ ] '1111'
>         [ ] '1234'
>         [ ] Custom: ___________

Excellent!  But I haven't messed enough with GTK+ to make it happen.

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