Hi all,
I've just ran across an issue with Bluetooth in openSUSE 13.1; mainly,
the GNOME Stack does not work with BlueZ 4.x anymore.
There are several components that have been ported to Bluez 5 already;
and, as most of the stuff is not relying on the library (as this has
been marked obsolete by upstream anyway), not much was seen prior to
actually finding a BT device to pair it.
The D-Bus APi changed and, as a result, stuff relying on it simply has a
50% chance to work or not work.
To make matters worse, we can't even just 'parallel install' bluez and
bluez5, as the DBus services clash (same name space).
So, we have the hard bullet to bite: either we update (Fedora decided to
do so, see
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-August/187738.html
for reference) or we accept to have a non-working BT stack in GNOME.
Updating it would likely still leave a few breakages here and there; but
KDE's BlueDevil for example does have support in git.
The 2nd alternative would be to 'try to undo' the Bluez 5 porting in the
GNOME Stack; No idea if and how well this will work; we would be the
only distro with GNOME 3.10 running on Bluez 4.
Any opinions around here?
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Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger