What's the current status of Bluetooth in Gnome3
I performed Gnome 3 show and tell last Saturday and after finally managing to pair the device Logitech diNovo Edge Wireless bluetooth Keyboard the keyboard did not work.
It took 3 tries since the time I had to enter all those numbers and the time the pairing timed out seem to be a bit short.
Now I'm not sure what policy you guys have for Bluetooth devices but I hope that you dont expect that users can enter "code" on all of them for example I have a Bluetooth GPS module that when pairing uses the default 0000 or 01234 ( I cant recall at the moment but it's one of those common defaults ) so I would have no way on the device to entered some kind of number to pair it together with the laptop.
We might want to add few bluetooth testcases to our test days to cover a bit bluetooth devices ( pairing and using phones keyboard mice etc ).
JBG
On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 07:40 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
What's the current status of Bluetooth in Gnome3
I performed Gnome 3 show and tell last Saturday and after finally managing to pair the device Logitech diNovo Edge Wireless bluetooth Keyboard the keyboard did not work.
It took 3 tries since the time I had to enter all those numbers and the time the pairing timed out seem to be a bit short.
It's usually the remote device that times out.
Now I'm not sure what policy you guys have for Bluetooth devices but I hope that you dont expect that users can enter "code" on all of them for example I have a Bluetooth GPS module that when pairing uses the default 0000 or 01234 ( I cant recall at the moment but it's one of those common defaults ) so I would have no way on the device to entered some kind of number to pair it together with the laptop.
"PIN options..." button in the device search page. And despite it being pretty prominent in the interface, people still don't see it. I'm guessing that that calls for the changes in: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=597572
We might want to add few bluetooth testcases to our test days to cover a bit bluetooth devices ( pairing and using phones keyboard mice etc ).
JBG
On 02/01/2011 12:08 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
It's usually the remote device that times out.
Good to know perhaps you might want to reduce the numbers that need to be entered in that case I personally feel that you might be over engineering the pairing of the bluetooth devices from security perspective.
On the actual status of bluetooth in Gnome 3 is the keyboard supposed to work on current state?
JBG
On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 12:27 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
On 02/01/2011 12:08 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
It's usually the remote device that times out.
Good to know perhaps you might want to reduce the numbers that need to be entered in that case I personally feel that you might be over engineering the pairing of the bluetooth devices from security perspective.
6 digits is what is recommended in the Bluetooth docs, which is why we use 6 digits.
On the actual status of bluetooth in Gnome 3 is the keyboard supposed to work on current state?
It should even work without GNOME 3. I don't see how the desktop environment is relevant. If the device is timing out when pairing, you'll probably want to try the latest bluez and kernel, and file a bug there instead.
On 02/01/2011 03:35 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 12:27 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
On 02/01/2011 12:08 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
It's usually the remote device that times out.
Good to know perhaps you might want to reduce the numbers that need to be entered in that case I personally feel that you might be over engineering the pairing of the bluetooth devices from security perspective.
6 digits is what is recommended in the Bluetooth docs, which is why we use 6 digits.
Ok I see..
On the actual status of bluetooth in Gnome 3 is the keyboard supposed to work on current state?
It should even work without GNOME 3. I don't see how the desktop environment is relevant. If the device is timing out when pairing, you'll probably want to try the latest bluez and kernel, and file a bug there instead.
I did pair the device ( on third try ) and the keyboard did not work after pairing hence I suspected this might have been Gnome Shell changes related.
I'll debug it further and try it with the latest .38 and then with .37 kernel to see if it makes any changes.
Thanx for the info
JBG
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