Dnia 28-08-2006, pon o godzinie 12:48 -0400, Jesse Keating napisał(a): > I was under the impression that bluetooth still needed a > bunch of hand fiddling to do what you wanted to do, not quite as simple as > plugging in a USB storage device. It depends. I use Bluetooth in my desktop PC. I used it to talk to my Nokias (move phonebooks, calendar and messages) and use GPRS as backup link. USB dongle "just works", there were problems with SELinux and session passwords early in FC5, but now it "just works", too. So the low-level part works OOTB. All you need to have is a discovery tool and configuration GUI-s for programs talking Bluetooth. I know KDE has all that you need. GNOME, as always, is far behind. gnome-bluetooth-libs give you a "Bluetooth manager" which simply doesn't work, all it does is scan around, "properties" doesn't work and it calls devices "Unnamed" until you call `hcitool scan` manually from the console (hal problem, probably) ;) Nautilus doesn't have any idea that I have an OBEX device nearby (compare to Konqueror's bluetooth:/, sdp:/ and obex:/, sigh). The only thing that really "just works" is the gnome-obex-server, an app waiting for other devices to send files to the computer. Of course it could be smarter (it doesn't have any configuration nor any GUI besides a notification area icon, always drops file in $HOME, luckily doesn't overwrite anything). Still, it does "just work" till this point. I can send files from another device to the GNOME workstation. 1/100 of KDE's capabilities, but still :) The thing that I had to hand-fiddle as root was adding rfcomm0 to /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf. Maybe it's not even necessary, but I haven't found any GUI for this task. After this I had to restart the service "bluetooth", there's GUI for that. So making a serial port over Bluetooth almost "just worked", the config file is very easy to write if I have the data (which I have to find using console sdptool, should I add that with KDE it's few clicks away?). Then there's biggest problem - system-config-network refused to make my phone's modem work. It insists to send some strange AT commands to the modem (no matter what I tell it to do) so the emulated modem doesn't want to speak with it. I had to go back to 1995 and write my own chat script! This thread is about gnome-bluetooth. All it can do is accepting incoming files from remote devices, but it works, really. I saw screenshots of sending from Nautilus, but FC5 doesn't have that. Having it installed by default can make interested parties play with it and maybe decide to help extending it (if it were written in C, I'd be working on it since months ;)). OTOH, it can give you lots of useless bug reports on programs nobody wants to fix :) Lam
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