[Bug 283064] Re: intrepid: bluetooth can not receive files

[Baptiste Mille-Mathias]

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 2:06 AM, Blutack <blutack at gmail.com> 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

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intrepid: bluetooth can not receive files
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