Bluetooth library 🥺

[deviantsemicolon]

The one thing stopping me from using quickshell is that it doesn't have a library for Bluetooth, and I'd like to make an applet for connecting Bluetooth devices in quickshell.

[jmoggr]

I worked around this for myself by adding a button that launches a bluetooth app. I personally don't change Bluetooth settings often, and in practice, I don't feel like I'm missing much without an applet. Still, more features is more better :)

import QtQuick
import QtQuick.Layouts
import Quickshell

MouseArea {
    Layout.preferredHeight: parent.height
    Layout.alignment: Qt.AlignHCenter
    Layout.fillHeight: true
    Layout.preferredWidth: icon.implicitWidth
    hoverEnabled: true

    Rectangle {
        id: background
        anchors.fill: parent
        radius: 5

        Image {
            id: icon
            source: "root:/assets/bluetooth.svg"
            height: parent.height * (2 / 3)

            anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
            fillMode: Image.PreserveAspectFit
        }
    }

    onEntered: background.color = "grey"
    onExited: background.color = "transparent"

    onClicked: {
        let entry = DesktopEntries.byId("io.github.kaii_lb.Overskride");
        if (!entry) {
            return;
        }

        entry.execute();
    }
}

[outfoxxed]

This is already tracked internally, and is planned. I have not had the time to do it yet.

My current solution is blueman-tray, which works well enough to be usable in its tray menu. If you want you can filter it out of your normal system tray item list and give it a special button.

[f-koehler]

I created a bluetooth integration for my statusbar using https://github.com/KDE/bluez-qt and found it reasonably user-friendly. It comes with QML modules included.