Bug 489245

Summary:	Show Bluetooth devices ordered by last used
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	postix <postix>
Component:	Bluetooth in general	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	nate
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	usability
Version First Reported In:	6.2.4
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=490982
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Description postix 2024-06-26 16:14:22 UTC

Devices are currently ordered alphabetically. In my opinion it would make more sense to order them chronologically by the time the user has successfully connected to them.

Alternatively (I'd open another issue for this), if one has many devices, it could be useful to pin some as favorites to the top. Like the headphones you practically always use.

Comment 1 ratijas 2024-06-26 21:38:09 UTC

Comparing Plasma to Android UX, this request makes some sense. It would require storing last usage date in BlueZ-Qt or even upstream BlueZ itself before we can use that data to sort devices in a filter-sort proxy model for UI. Similar to Network Manager & plasma-nm applet/KCM.

Comment 2 ratijas 2024-07-10 16:30:59 UTC

There's an upstream feature request for "Device last-connected-time API #294": https://github.com/bluez/bluez/issues/294

We (as a downstream API consumers) are blocked on their decisions and implementation.