Bluetooth connections

[Robby Workman]

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On Mon, 02 Mar 2015 11:37:06 -0700
James Moe <jimoe at sohnen-moe.com> wrote:

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> On 02/28/2015 09:09 PM, Robby Workman wrote:
> >> Where do I go to set up bluetooth devices? Nothing in Setup 
> >> Manager seems to fit.
> > 
> > Whatever app you use for bluetooth should do that.
> > 
>   When I was using Gnome desktop, it had a manager that more or less
> worked. Not so xfce, it would seem.


Every desktop environment doesn't need to fall into the NIH trap.
There's no need for an Xfce network management tool, and Xfce bluetooth
applet, and Xfce editor, an Xfce browser, an Xfce chess game, an Xfce
image editor, and Xfce office suite, and so on. Some of these certainly
exist and are quite nice, but the presence of other apps that are 
pretty much GTK-only in a practical sense makes the idea of Xfce-developed 
and maintained equivalents questionable endeavor, given the time/resource
shortage already plaguing Xfce devs.

In short, if you like the GNOME bluetooth manager, use it.

 
> > If you happen to use blueman, the git version (which will be 2.0 
> > sooner or later) [...]
> > 
>   I found an old version of blueman on Sourceforge. Also, the website
> blueman-project.org is for sale. So I am not clear the project is
> active, and if so, where to find a distribution.


https://github.com/blueman-project/blueman

They're currently working toward a 2.0 release.

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