Status of bluetooth in Gnome3

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

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