[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#501558: Bug#501558: bluez-gnome: Connect option not working

[Filippo Giunchedi]

On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 01:45:05PM +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote:
> Package: bluez-gnome
> Version: 0.27-1
> Severity: important
> 
> The bluetooth panel applet is quite useless to me. If I have a bluetooth mouse,
> the applet correctly shows it as a mouse device. I expect that when I click on
> "Connect", a connection with the mouse will be made and that I can use the
> mouse from that point on. However, despite knowing that the device is a mouse,
> it tries to make an OBEX connection to the mouse. Making OBEX connections in
> itself fails as well, because even though gnome-vfs-obexftp is installed, I get
> a dialog box saying obex:// protocol not being recognized.

Indeed, this ought to be fixed in newer versions of bluez-gnome, which require
bluez 4.x

thanks for your report,
filippo
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