GNOME developer Bastien Nocera talks in his latest blog post about the enhancements he managed to implement in the past few weeks to the Bluetooth stack of the Fedora Linux operating system.
The patches submitted by the developer to the Bluetooth packages in the latest Fedora Linux release promise to bring improvements to the way PlayStation 3 DualShock controllers are set up in the environment if you’re using the GNOME desktop environment.
Until now, to set up a DualShock 3 controller, users had to plug it in via USB, then disconnect it, and then press the “P” button on the joypad, which would have popped-up a dialog to confirm the Bluetooth connection. But this method had some quirks though.
“If you were trying to just charge the joypad, then it would forget its original “console” and you would need to plug it in again,” explains Bastien Nocera. “If you didn’t have the Bluetooth panel opened when trying to use it wirelessly, then it just wouldn’t have worked.”
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