[Bug 284994] Re: bluetooth-wizard unable to pair to fixed pin devices

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And what my patch does is to display the randomly generated PIN (and
most devices will accept longer, more secure ones - 8 is a typical
number).  I never suggested replacing them altogether.

The user can leave the random PIN and use it or modify it.

I knew about the paring fail exits problem which is why I didn't
suggest a retry (or series thereof).

And I think I suggested pin options very early in the discussions (the
wizard would have to add another page for it which is a bit beyond my
limited Gtk+ skills and time budget, and there was nothing in the
program for a user entry field - the pin was part of a label, not an
entry (spinboxes having the problem of how do you represent N digits
of zeros) and there was no place to change it before the get pin
callback - which is where I added the modal dialog ).

My patch unbreaks intrepid (and any others using the wizard) for the
short term, and I'll let the more experienced gnomes write something
cleaner, but it will require a lot of UI rewiring.

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 8:52 PM, DanielRoesler <diafygi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay, here is the thread with the response from a developer on the bluetooth-linux mailing list:
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.bluez.kernel/721
>
>>I didn't say it was a bad idea to allow users to enter a fixed PIN, I
>>said it would be a bad idea to replace random PINs altogether with
>>user-provided PINs.
>
> With a legitimate concern
>
>>That wouldn't work, a lot of devices will get out of pairing mode after
>>an unsuccesful pairing.
>
> And offers a good solution
>
>>My solution would be to have a button at the bottom of the device
>>selection page called "PIN options" (or similar).
>
> The bug has been closed by the original submitter
> (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=560315#c14) , so it would
> probably be better to open a new bug.
>
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