Tadas' Google Summer Of Code, mentored by Marcel Holtmann, got us a D-Bus service that does ObexPush and ObexFTP server and client. Last week, I cleaned up Tadas' patch, and sent a big patch to allow bluetooth-sendto feature-parity with the old gnome-obex-send.
nautilus-sendto already got tweaked to use the new program when sending over Bluetooth, and all that code lies in bluez-gnome in rawhide.
This morning, I added ObexFTP support to gnome-user-share. It seems like the right place to allow people to share pictures or music. Already in the newly released gnome-user-share 0.20 and in rawhide.
Next jobs on the line are getting rid of gnome-obex-server, finishing the widgets in bluez-gnome, and porting gnome-vfs-obexftp to gio (although that will probably mean a rewrite using obex-data-server again).
Bastien! Bastien! Bastien! If he can't do it noone can!
ReplyDeleteMore seriously:
Your work is much appriciated and looked forward to!
<3
ReplyDeleteYou sir, ROCK!
Meanwhile.. my windows system at work just craped out trying to deal with a sony ericsson and a nokia device at the same time.
Woo-hoo ! Rock on, dude !
ReplyDeleteSuperb. Superb.
ReplyDeleteIt's great to see decent Bluetooth support appearing in Gnome at long last. Thanks and keep up the good work!
ReplyDeleteCongrats. Sadly, gnome-user-share is outdated in Debian.
ReplyDeletethat's great!
ReplyDeletejust a question... if you can't port gnome-vfs-obex to gio in time for 2.22, does that mean that there won't be any bluetooth browsing possible in nautilus in 2.22?
Yep, no gnome-vfs-obexftp port means no ObexFTP browsing in 2.22.
ReplyDeleteSo, for the stupid (like myself) - what's the Idiot's Guide To Exactly What I Have To Run To Send Files From My Phone To My Shiny GNOME Desktop in this brave new world? Thanks :)
ReplyDeleteAdam, step 1 is to install Fedora, step 2, follow the guide on the Fedora wiki.
ReplyDeletehadess: installing Fedora, no thanks, guide, thanks. :)
ReplyDeleteSeems with the new gnome-bluetooth and bluez-gnome's applet running I can successfully find the computer from my phone and pair with it. But when I try to send any file from phone to PC, it says it can't find any devices. Yes, I set discoverable in the Bluetooth applet.
adamwill (login via lj doesn't seem to be working)
Is gnome-user-share really required just to receive a file that the phone is trying to push? It seems unnecessary. And I'm fairly sure this used to work somehow.
> hadess: installing Fedora, no thanks, guide, thanks. :)
ReplyDeleteI don't think you need to go any further then, it'll be a while before it hits the other distros...
Actually, it's in Mandriva Cooker already:
ReplyDeleteFrom: GXtz Waschk (devel@mandriva.com)
Reply-To: cooker@mandrivalinux.org
To: changelog@mandriva.com
Subject: [RPM] cooker contrib/release gnome-user-share-0.20-1mdv2008.1
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:51:49 +0100 (CET) (06:51 PST)
All other bits (gnome-bluetooth etc) got updated today too. So it's only not there if this stuff is still only in SVN / Fedora-specific patches, not in the latest tagged releases.
Is bluetooth-sendto a command that can be used from the command line like gnome-obex-send today? I hope so at least.
ReplyDeleteAll I can say is: GO GO GADGET OBEX GO!!!
ReplyDeleteIn other words--1000 thanks!!
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