[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#530829: Bug#530829: bluez-gnome: receive file doesn't work, gnome-user-share not usable

Yves-Alexis Perez corsac at debian.org
Fri May 29 12:57:21 UTC 2009


On ven, 2009-05-29 at 14:48 +0200, Filippo Giunchedi wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 02:25:31PM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > > agreed, a note is in order. Note also that now gvfs-backends is recommended and
> > > a bug was filed to enable obex backend though AFAIK gnome-vfs-obexftp doesn't
> > > act as obex server but simply as a obex browser.
> > 
> > Ok so what exactly is needed to be able to receive files with bluetooth?
> > The g-u-s stuff?
> 
> for gnome I'd say yes, though anything that setups an obex server (through
> obex-data-server if wanted) will work. Perhaps also a python script using
> dbus might be worth including.

Ok, but there is no integration with bluetooth-applet, I guess? I seem
to recall that obex-data-server was run by bt-applet but I'm not sure
it's true.
> > 
> > And gnome-vfs-obexftp is still needed for browsing remote devices? (I
> > had the impression that the recommends was dropped because it was
> > replaced by gvfs-backends.
> 
> it is replaced by gvfs-backends indeed, see #530435 which just got fixed

Ok so I guess the “browse” bug can be closed (well, I'll first test it,
but…)

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis






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