On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 2:06 AM, Blutack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Surely this is a regression? Having to install a heavy and potentially > insecure network service for bluetooth file transfers is not a very good > solution to a problem that did not exist in the first place - whilst the > UI for bluetooth was not brilliant in Gnome 2.22, the stack worked well. > I know Gnome has a policy of minimizing settings exposed in the UI, but > this is the first case I've come across where previously extremely > useful functionality has been removed for the sake of a UI alteration.
First bluez-gnome is not part of the official GNOME desktop, this is a part of the bluez project; I don't know the decision behind the removal, and we can't go against their decision. gnome-user-share provides such functionality for a while, so I think it was decided to keep a core part in bluez-gnome, like pairing and browsing. Apache is certainly not insecure as this is a well known software audited by a lot of people, and with the user process of apache running under a SELinux/AppArmor context should prevent any severe flaw. I agree having the apache daemon started automatically system-wide at boot is not ideal but this can be changed. > Does this quote > > gnome-bluetooth uses older interfaces, and is not going to be fixed. > > mean that a reverse backport (not sure what that's called!) of the 2.22 > bluetooth stack is impossible? Bluez 4 added new programming interface, and gnome-bluetooth is totally deprecated; so don't count on it. > > Gnome's solid bluetooth stack was previously a credit to the desktop, > and I personally believe the decision to remove a large and critical > portion and package it separately in an obscure new package is a > mistake. > This is not an obscure one, it is working for ages; at furthermore it is presented to be added for GNOME 2.26. -- Baptiste Mille-Mathias Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés -- intrepid: bluetooth can not receive files https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/283064 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
