[gnome-bluetooth] bluetooth-applet discontinued?

Bastien Nocera hadess at hadess.net
Wed Jan 15 13:07:13 EST 2014


On Wed, 2014-01-15 at 16:34 +0100, Andrés G. Aragoneses wrote:
> Hey Bastien,
> 
> On 08/08/13 14:51, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > Em Thu, 2013-08-08 às 13:00 +0200, Fabrice Delente escreveu:
> >> Hello.
> >>
> >>
> >> I'm using gnome-bluetooth on gentoo, with XFCE.
> >>
> >>
> >> Up till today I had access to the applet, so that I could monitor
> and
> >> manage my connections. But now, with version 3.8.1, the applet is
> not
> >> available anymore. I have bluetooth-sendto, and bluetooth-wizard,
> but
> >> not bluetooth-applet. Is it normal, or a misconfiguration before
> >> compilation?
> >
> > No, the bluetooth-applet was only used in GNOME Fallback which got
> > removed in GNOME 3.8. Either use an older version of
> gnome-bluetooth, or
> > use something like blueman instead.
> 
> I guess blueman is hosted in launchpad[1] but...
> 
> >
> > Or, even better, use GNOME 3 with builtin Bluetooth support :)
> 
> Can you tell me where exactly is the code for GNOME3's bluetooth
> device
> management?

It's in gnome-shell, gnome-control-center for the UI parts, and
gnome-bluetooth for the backend code. Killswitch support in
gnome-settings-daemon.

Cheers




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