Am Mi 06 Nov 2013 21:21:37 CET schrieb Andreas Radke:

Blueman is broken and for many users not even starting. -Andy

Hello, I thought about creating a GUI for gnome-bluetooth since bluetooth-wizard to pair new devices and bluetooth-sendto to send files should work without gnome, only gtk3 is required. The traymenu and pairing agent logic are implemented as a (private?) gobject introspection interface. We could simply latch on that interface. The rest is done in javascript for the gnome shell (not part of the gnome-bluetooth package). We can do that for other desktop environments with python. Andreas

On 2013-11-06 3:21 PM, Andreas Radke wrote:

Am Sat, 12 Oct 2013 16:28:56 +0200 schrieb Tom Gundersen :

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Hi guys,

Once pulseaudio and bluedevil moves out of [testing], the only official package depending on bluez4 will be blueman.

As blueman was last released two years ago, and last upstream activity was more than one year ago and that bluez4 is no longer developed upstream at all, I suggest dropping both of them from the repositories.

Any objections?

Cheers,

Tom

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Best would be to get bluez connecting to devices from console or/and to have a desktop independent frontend like this approach:

http://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce4-dev/2013-July/030408.html

-Andy

By this are you including the problem of bluez 5 not providing a way to automatically connect to bluetooth input devices without Gnome or KDE. That was something I ran into on my media center when I tried to switch. The keyboard might not be available on boot. There is a forum post about the issue here, with a couple workarounds but none of them are ideal for the end user to be doing: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=166362 - Stephen E. Baker