Look into switching to bluez 4.x
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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alsa-lib (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
|
Mario Limonciello | ||
bluez (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
|
Mario Limonciello | ||
bluez-gnome (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
|
Mario Limonciello | ||
gnome-user-share (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
|
Baptiste Mille-Mathias | ||
gvfs (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Mario Limonciello | ||
nautilus-sendto (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
|
Nathan Handler | ||
obex-data-server (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
|
Mario Limonciello |
Bug Description
BlueZ 4.x resolves two regressions that are seen in the 3.x stack on Intrepid.
Regressions solved
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* Keyboards aren't able to pair in the UI.
- Reverting to an earlier release of bluez-utils is not a good solution as a lot of bugs were fixed related to Symbian OBEX by coming up to 3.36.
- This happens with the latest version of bluez-gnome (0.28) as well.
* Broken services tab
- In the 3.x stack, the services tab is unfortunately the only way to activate new devices.
- This is fixed in bluez-gnome 0.28 or anything later. However you need to switch to a package in the 1.x series when using the Bluez 4.x stack.
Newer features
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The 4.x version brings an additional UI element, a pairing wizard. This may cause problems for documentation teams, but considering the previous UI was not intuitive, there likely hasn't been a lot of documentation on it.
Testing
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The entire stack that needs to be changed for this bug is available on the Bluetooth team testing PPA at http://
* Builds are all verified functional for i386, amd64, lpia
* These builds have all been test installed by adding the PPA to an up to date Intrepid and doing a dist-upgrade.
* An upgrade from a base install of hardy to one of intrepid while using the PPA as an active repository was also tested. Modifications had to be made to update-manager to test this behavior (since the PPA is not authenticated). There were no upgrade issues.
* Functionality has been verified for keyboards, mice using both Rocketfish & Apple keyboards and mice.
* Functionality has been verified for OBEX browsing, OBEX sending, and DUN via rfcomm on a Blackberry 8130.
* Functionality has been verified for Audio headsets using the "headset" device.
Related branches
Changed in bluez-utils: | |
assignee: | nobody → superm1 |
status: | New → In Progress |
Changed in bluez-gnome: | |
assignee: | nobody → superm1 |
status: | New → In Progress |
description: | updated |
Changed in gnome-user-share: | |
assignee: | nobody → bmillemathias |
status: | New → In Progress |
Changed in gvfs: | |
assignee: | nobody → superm1 |
status: | New → In Progress |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in gvfs: | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
Code can be observed in my branch, and PPA @ https:/ /bugs.edge. launchpad. net/~superm1/ +archive
Current version in the ppa reflects:
* bluez gnome bzr #3
* bluez bzr #6