If cabling is a reasonable alternaative why not just remove by altogether? Having a Bluetooth manager that can't connect to phones really doesn't make gnome look much better.
Anonymous, Bluetooth is used for quite a lot of other things as well, not just ftp... and something needs to take care of things like device pairing.
Exposing the user to broken features is clearly wrong, letting the user pair their devices is clearly correct.
8 November 2011 at 09:43
Anonymous said...
Sorry for necroposting, but.
Could the bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=588986 be fixed? Thus, at least some form of duplex file transfer will be available (desktop -> phone and phone -> desktop). Please, at least mention gnome-user-share on the corresponding gnome-control-center page (and, preferably, in bluetooth-wizard). Please, do not only add links in the documentation.
Best regards, Anonymous
20 December 2011 at 20:23
If you've tried to use ObexFTP browsing (browsing files on mobile phones over Bluetooth) in GNOME in recent times, and didn't get a good experience from it (crashes, or very unreliable browsing), those problems are known, and due to the architecture used to implement the functionality.
Unless somebody steps up in the GNOME 3.4 timeframe, I will disable the access to the functionality in gnome-bluetooth. The brokenness makes us look very bad, and the files are still available through other (cabled) means in most cases.
"ObexFTP in GNOME, (non-)update"
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If cabling is a reasonable alternaative why not just remove by altogether? Having a Bluetooth manager that can't connect to phones really doesn't make gnome look much better.
8 November 2011 at 02:10
Anonymous, Bluetooth is used for quite a lot of other things as well, not just ftp... and something needs to take care of things like device pairing.
Exposing the user to broken features is clearly wrong, letting the user pair their devices is clearly correct.
8 November 2011 at 09:43
Sorry for necroposting, but.
Could the bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=588986 be fixed? Thus, at least some form of duplex file transfer will be available (desktop -> phone and phone -> desktop). Please, at least mention gnome-user-share on the corresponding gnome-control-center page (and, preferably, in bluetooth-wizard). Please, do not only add links in the documentation.
Best regards,
Anonymous
20 December 2011 at 20:23