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Re: [trinity-devel] Bluetooth and mobile tools

From: Francois Andriot <francois.andriot@...>
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:07:06 +0100
Le 24/11/2012 05:31, Timothy Pearson a écrit :
>>>  From what I can tell the KDE4 versions of these tools stink (not my
>>> wors,
>>> just google kdebluetooth! :-).  *If* the KDE3 versions were halfway
>>> decent
>>> then yes, they should be brought into TDE.
>> To my understanding, even after porting work will be needed to update to
>> the latest bluez. Possibly for obexftp too. That might mean little more
>> than fixing a few lines of code like we have done with libpng, ffmpeg,
>> etc., or might mean a serious overhaul. I don't know.
>>
>> Still, if we have some apps that can wrap around those tools and do things
>> like device pairing and file syncing then we have a lot more than we do
>> now.
>>
>> Darrell
> Send me links to the latest versions and I'll throw a TDE-ported version
> of these two software packages into GIT (I have scripts here that handle
> the TDE conversion fairly quickly).
>
> Tim
>

Hello, about kdebluetooth, I had already looked at it before.
I've found that the last ubuntu package contained patches for 1.08 so 
I've used them. I also found and wrote other patches, so that it builds 
correctly against 3.5.13.1, even without TQT porting.

See here:
http://git.trinitydesktop.org/cgit/tde-packaging/tree/redhat/extras/kdebluetooth

Alas, as said Darell, it does not work with Bluez4 library, only Bluez3. 
So the application is useless, it does not detect any bluetooth receiver 
in the computer.
I did not find any guide to easily port Bluez3 application to Bluez4.

Francois