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List:       fedora-extras-list
Subject:    Re: find_lang (kdebluetooth review)
From:       "Gilboa Davara" <gilboad () gmail ! com>
Date:       2007-04-05 1:41:35
Message-ID: 9050516b0704041841p44f6e72bxc18baed06ca3db96 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 4/4/07, livinded <livinded@deadbytes.net> wrote:
> Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 10:05 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> >> On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 03:11:12PM +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> >>> In general, there's one blocking issue with getting it out - kdepin:
> >>> It seems that new(er) versions of bluez-utils no longer supports older
> >>> pin-helpers - relaying instead on DBUS notifications and as such,
> >>> bluez-utils must be patched in-order to support the old(er) dbus-less
> >>> kdebluetooth.
> >>> Once I'll get F7T3 running, I'll create a patched version of bluez-utils
> >>> - and if it works, submit the patch to the upstream maintainer.
> >>>
> >> Wouldn't the more useful patch update kdebluetooth to use dbus?
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Yes it would - by far.
> > But considering how close T4 is, I doubt that I'll have sufficient time
> > to either port the kdebluetooth/KDE DBUS support to 3.5.x (is it even
> > possible?) or add DBUS support for kdepin from scratch. (I'm the
> > packager - not the original upstream developer so I'll need to know my
> > way around the code first)
> >
> > AFAICS, the patch itself [1] looks reasonable enough.
> > However, I want to test it with both kdebluetooth and bluez-gnome don't
> > kick the bucket on this one.
> >
> > - Gilboa
> > [1] http://www.kmobiletools.org/node/228
> >
> >
>
> The developers of kdebluetooth say that with the release of KDE4 with
> they plan on rewriting it with dbus support to get it working again with
> the BlueZ-3.x branch and take advantage of KDE being written to have
> dbus support.
>

Indeed they are.
However, we are require a stop-gate solution until KDE4 is released.
(Most likely in F8 live-span)

- Gilboa

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