Return-Path: From: Marcel Holtmann To: BlueZ users In-Reply-To: References: <1186736578.20129.202.camel@violet> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:04:07 +0200 Message-Id: <1186751047.20129.213.camel@violet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Bluez-users] bluetooth-applet and gnome-vfs-obexftp Reply-To: BlueZ users List-Id: BlueZ users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: bluez-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: bluez-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Hi Timothy, > >> 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. actually the name is a little bit misleading when it comes to the dependencies since bluez-gnome only depends on GTK and D-Bus. However the intention is to provide UI applications for the GNOME desktop. It doesn't link against the GNOME libraries, because I am not mad ;) > As far as I can see, one has to have bluez-gnome just to establish pairing. > Is that right? That is wrong. Every desktop framework can have its own UI. The bluez-gnome provides stuff for GNOME and kdebluetooth provides this for KDE. They all communicate over D-Bus. > I don't understand why you can't just put the code in a file. Because pairing is global and the security implications of a file based approach are too complicated. Regards Marcel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bluez-users mailing list Bluez-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bluez-users