Description of problem:nomore bluedevil-monolithic in Bluedevil-5.3 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):5.3.0 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. dnf update bluedevil 2. 3. Actual results: no more bluedevil applet in mate or gnome environment to configure bluetooth peripheral Expected results: at least a replacement to be able to discover,configure and use blutooth peripherals in non kde environment Additional info:
True, bluedevil is now a plasma5 (only) applet, sorry.
J(In reply to Rex Dieter from comment #1) > True, bluedevil is now a plasma5 (only) applet, sorry. Just for information of people searching a way to use bluetooth under GNOME or MATE for example: I have installed Fed 22 with MATE spin, but added afterward PLAMSA environment, because I need many KDE tools in my daily environment. So ligthdm is the display manager, and at login step I can switch easily from MATE to PLAMSA Desktop environment. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Yes it's true In PLASMA only environment you get bluedevil applet, as long as blutooth service is running!!! +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++= But even in PLASMA environment, YOU CANNOT HAVE ANY EXTRA FUNCTIONALITY removed from bludevil-5.3 !!!! ==> No applet to manage (accept/refuse) Bluetooth random connection ID, when the phone is the initiator of the connection , for example when you ask from your phone to use the PC as audio sink, or HEADSET voice gateway !!!! Very SAD! When just pulseaudio 6 was now providing free handset functionality, as described there: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/6.0/ which has been removed from bluez5 as described here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bluetooth_headset ==> No more applet too, just to launch Konqueror to open obexftp bidirectional transfer file with phone supporting this feature (well it's true, this last one functionality is less useful today, with Phone supporting exchange via USB !!!) ================= So all the functionalities of bluedevil-5.3 are also usable from MATE or GNOME Desktop, as long as PLASMA minimal environment is installed, with the installation of KDE tools and KDE Multimedia application and bluedevil example from MATE: ==> menu: system -> Control Center -> KDE Configuration -> Bluetooth then you can SCAN, ADD, CONNECT to bluetooth device. When you ask connection to your phone, you have an applet showing on PC the random IDENTIFIER, also visible on the phone. You have to accept on both side, and must validate on the phone automatic connection without identification for later connection, as you can do the same thing under PLASMA! You can also add two launcher on MATE panel, with : ==> 1) bluedevil-wizard, just to manage scanning and ask further connection on your bluetooth peripheral ==> 2) bluedevil-sendfile, to push files via bluetooth from your PC to the phone (this could be done also by bluetooth-sendto; bluetooth-wizard has been removed from gnome-bluetooth because it was never functional: on my Fed 20 , it was detecting nothing, while bluedevil-wizard is actually functional! )
Sorry for the mistake above: "No more applet too, just to launch Konqueror to open obexftp bidirectional ...." Actually With bluedevil applet under plasma, you still have access to "Browse file" functionality as soon as the device is already connected. It opens dolphin for obexftp bidirectional transfer file
(In reply to Yves L'ECUYER from comment #2) Here's an alternative solution courtesy of Wolfgang Ulbrich the MATE maintainer. He suggested earlier tonight I try Blueman because he had heard it worked again now. https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/heikoada/blueman-git/ 1. Open terminal and issue the commands (the pulseaudio-module-bluetooth is optional and only necessary if you want to playback audio from bluetooth via your computer's speakers): sudo dnf copr enable heikoada/blueman-git sudo dnf install blueman pulseaudio-module-bluetooth 2. Restart your computer. 3. Create an autostart entry in MATE Control Centre>Startup Applications (optional): Name: Blueman Applet Command: blueman-applet Comment: Blueman Bluetooth Manager Further information: https://github.com/blueman-project/blueman/
(In reply to Mike Simms from comment #4) > (In reply to Yves L'ECUYER from comment #2) > > Here's an alternative solution courtesy of Wolfgang Ulbrich the MATE > maintainer. He suggested earlier tonight I try Blueman because he had heard > it worked again now. > > https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/heikoada/blueman-git/ > > 1. Open terminal and issue the commands (the pulseaudio-module-bluetooth is > optional and only necessary if you want to playback audio from bluetooth via > your computer's speakers): > > sudo dnf copr enable heikoada/blueman-git > sudo dnf install blueman pulseaudio-module-bluetooth > > 2. Restart your computer. > > 3. Create an autostart entry in MATE Control Centre>Startup Applications > (optional): > > Name: Blueman Applet > Command: blueman-applet > Comment: Blueman Bluetooth Manager > > Further information: https://github.com/blueman-project/blueman/ thanks for the suggestion and thanks for all the job done by The maintainer. It will be helpful for other people using blue tooth. I just installed that commented above with the rc1 candidate release, and now I find again ALL the functionality provided by old version of bluedevil with: bluedevil-monolithic. So the lacking functionality in bluedevil Plasma applet is there: WE CAN ASK THE CONNECTION AGAIN FROM THE MOBILE PHONE: a popup appear on PC Desktop to validate the 6 digit code sent by the phone. I hope it will be soon a standard package of Fedora 22, or at least in rpmfusion repository!
Yves, please refer tohttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1171517 and add your support. Thanks