On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 00:20 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Is anyone using kdebluetooth? > I've been looking at it, but find the setup rather confusing. > I'm trying to use it to connect my Fedora-9/KDE laptop > to my Sony-Ericsson T630 mobile phone. > > I've been looking at the KDE Bluetooth framework Handbook. > I'm not sure if these KDE manuals have been modified > to take account of the specific Fedora setup, > but I found a couple of remarks slightly strange. > > 1) The manual speaks of "kbluetoothd: > The Core of the KDE Bluetooth Framework", and says > "You can start KBluetoothD by typing kbluetoothd on the command line > or by starting it from the K-Menu (usually System/kbluetoothd)." > > In fact there is no kbluetoothd on my updated Fedora-9, > even though I have installed *bluez* and *bluetooth*. > There is a /usr/bin/kbluetooth running. > Is that Fedora's name for kbluetoothd ? > > 2) The section on setting up kdebluetooth suggests that the line > > pin_helper /usr/local/lib/kdebluetooth/kbluepin; > > should appear in hcid.conf . > But there is no program kbluepin anywhere on my system. > (The kdebluetooth stuff is in /usr/lib/kdebluetooth/ > rather than /usr/local/lib/kdebluetooth/ ; > but that is not important; > the relevant point is that there is no kbluepin .) > > Hello, kdebluetooth in F9 is more-or-less broken. (I should know; I maintain it :)) Upstream was more-less-dead for the past 2-3 months and I was about to yank the plug out of it. However, the kdebluetooth team released a new, KDE4 compatible version... Yesterday. I'll do my best to get it into updates-testing ASAP. (Once it passes some sanity tests, of-course.) Never the less, be aware that this is a 0.1 release. Expect bugs - many of them :) - Gilboa -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
