Re: [Bluez-users] bluetooth-applet and gnome-vfs-obexftp

Timothy Murphy
2007-08-10T12:45:54Z

Marcel Holtmann wrote:

>> Version 0.10 of bluez-gnome added support for "browsing devices" - a
>> much needed feature by any account. What I'm not thrilled about is
>> that it was written to support gnome-vfs-obexftp.
>>
>> Don't get me wrong - gnome-vfs-obexftp is awesome, but
>> bluetooth-applet is the wrong entry point for it. The applet should
>> allow you to see what devices are around you and allow you to initiate
>> a bonding with them but the assumption that you want to browse OBEX is
>> bad.
>
> it is exactly the right entry point. You might wanna compare how MacOS X
> handles it. The actual bonding will be done automatically. You are the
> client and so we can rely on the actual FTP server to ask for a bonding
> and not wasting time to try to pair a public FTP repository that has no
> key anyway.

What I find odd is that it suggests bluez is somehow connected to gnome.
As a KDE user I find it strange that I have to use a gnome application.
This doesn't offend me, but I assumed - wrongly as it happened -
that installing bluez-gnome would require
a whole slew of gnome applications.

As far as I can see, one has to have bluez-gnome just to establish pairing.
Is that right?
I don't understand why you can't just put the code in a file.

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