24 Nov
2012
24 Nov
'12
2:41 a.m.
I have a copy of kdebluetooth-1.0_beta8.tar.bz2 for KDE3 as well as a copy of kmobiletools
for KDE3.
I don't know how outdated these tools might be, be Trinity has no such tools. People
around the world routinely sync mobile devices and cell phones with their computers.
Trinity users have to use non Trinity apps to perform what is now a routine task for
many.
Would we be wasting our time porting these apps to Trinity?
Darrell
24 Nov
24 Nov
3:48 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-devel] Bluetooth and mobile tools
I have a copy of kdebluetooth-1.0_beta8.tar.bz2 for
KDE3 as well as a copy
of kmobiletools for KDE3.
I don't know how outdated these tools might be, be Trinity has no such
tools. People around the world routinely sync mobile devices and cell
phones with their computers. Trinity users have to use non Trinity apps to
perform what is now a routine task for many.
Would we be wasting our time porting these apps to Trinity?
Darrell
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.
Tim
4:10 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-devel] Bluetooth and mobile tools
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
4:31 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-devel] Bluetooth and mobile tools
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 
9:07 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-devel] Bluetooth and mobile tools
Le 24/11/2012 05:31, Timothy Pearson a écrit :
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/kdeblue…
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
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
7:53 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-devel] Bluetooth and mobile tools
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.
This blog entry from a couple of years ago describes the problem:
http://blog.projectnibble.org/2010/08/08/how-ubuntus-broken-bluetooth-suppo…
In fairness, that blog entry indicates why bluetooth support in KDE4 has been problematic
too.
In addition to the patch collection provided by Francois, this wiki provides some
information about what might be needed to fix any ported kdebluetooth code:
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Manually_using_Bluetooth
Are there any bluez alternatives?
Seems other wrapper utilities are working with bluez 4, both GTK and KDE4. Perhaps we will
need to study the code in some of those apps to port kdebluetooth to Trinity.
Darrell
26 Nov
26 Nov
12:26 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-devel] Bluetooth and mobile tools
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/kdeblue…
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.
How well do tdepim kitchensync and gnokii work with cell phones?
Darrell
3 Dec
3 Dec
9:35 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-devel] Bluetooth and mobile tools (sources)
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).
http://humanreadable.nfshost.com/trinity/patches/kdebluetooth-1.0_beta8.tar…
http://humanreadable.nfshost.com/trinity/patches/kmobiletools-0.5.0-beta3.t…
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