BlueZ Status in Fedora.

[Rave it]

Am Tue, 13 Aug 2013 12:00:01 +0000
schrieb devel-request at lists.fedoraproject.org:

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> Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 11:26:05 +0200
> From: Kalev Lember <kalevlember at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: BlueZ Status in Fedora.
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> On 08/13/2013 11:11 AM, Rave it wrote:
> > mate-bluetooth doesn't support bluez5, and upstream doesn't have started to port it.
> > I don't expect that is is ready before f20 alpha or beata.
> > So it would be very nice not to push bluez5 into f20.
> > Also Cristofph Wickert asked me to clean up runtime dependencies for mate-bluetooth to avoid that xfce/lxde user don't have to be install to many mate packages if they want to use mate-bluetooth.
> > It seems there is a plan that xfce/lxde also want to be use mate-bluetooth. (maybe)  
> 
> Can you use gnome-bluetooth instead?
> 
> I mean, mate-bluetooth is just a fork on an older version of
> gnome-bluetooth. It probably made sense to use the fork when MATE was
> based on gtk2 (because you can't mix gtk2 and gtk3 librarires), but now
> that MATE has switched to gtk3, you guys should be able to switch back
> to gnome-bluetooth proper.

In general this is a possibility for the future (for fedora and upstream), because GTK3 is a development goal in mate upstream.
But we have currently no fixed release date for MATE-1.8.
And i'm pretty shure it doen't comes before next year. So GTK3 in MATE is a feature for f21/22.
Other probs are:
1. gnome-bluetooth upstream has removed the fallback icon for autostart in session,.......no systray icon in other DE than gnome itself.
2. if gnome revert this change in upstream 'OnlyShowIn=MATE" needs to be added.
3. Also runtime dependencies needs to be checked, we don't want to be install more gnome as necessary in mate.