Christopher Schramm wrote: > Jelle de Jong wrote: >> Would it not be better to improver bluez-gnome? or work with the >> bluez-gnome developers and choice one project to officially support. I >> think all the missing features that bluez-gnome does not bring will be on >> the developers todo list for bluez-gnome. I am afraid for segmentation >> and supplicated efforts. > > I don't know what has been the initial reason for bluez-gnome. > Personally I don't think it's up to the bluez team to provide a GUI, > they should better have put the efforts in their command line tools, as > you remarked. In my eyes bluez-gnome is neither highly developed nor > necessary... ...and it's name is quite unfavorable. Maybe the bluez team > would quit bluez-gnome in favor of blueman since it's just superior (not > sure, but I wouldn't expect things in bluez-gnome that could be brought > to blueman, so a merge makes no sense), but that's up to them and not my > or the blueman upstream's cup of tea. > Of course Debian can quit support for bluez-gnome, but I wouldn't remind > that, since it's never a bad idea to give the user a choice and it's > somehow bound to the bluez package. > > Anyway, whatever the right strategy to enhance (desktop independent) > bluetooth GUIs should be, blueman definitely brings many advantages and > outplays its alternatives so it has to be shown to developers and users. > I think it's absolutely reasonable to add it to Debian. > > So I'm still looking for a sponsor! ;-)
I agree this package is welcome in debian, somebody fancy to sponser? I just read this: http://www.hadess.net/2009/02/we-have-fork.html hadess is one of the bluez developers and somehow they decided (without any mails on the linux-bluetooth mailinglist) to start a fork of the bluez-gnome and start gnome-bluetooth. I have absolute no idea what the heck is going on here, so maybe its time to start a new thread on the linux-blueto...@vger.kernel.org mailinglist. There was a question: "What happened with bluez-gnome development?" on the mailinglist but it was not answered. Could you please start a good discussion on the linux-bluetooth mailinglist, the list is for both users as developers. Thanks in advance, Jelle de Jong -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org