← Back to team overview

lubuntu-qa team mailing list archive

Re: Blue tooth and Macs

 

Obviously i second Paul :)

Just a small remark: As far as i understand, in theory, pcmanfm should
have *NO* problem anymore (since 0.9.10 or so, it should be capable to
do obex - and it does, out of the box, with debian!).

2012/3/9 Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> Thanks,
>
> We do need to target what is where. Maybe blue tooth turned back on just for
> the Intel-Macs? and left off for ppc? It was the issue of people re-adding
> it in and pcmanfm having issues was why I asked for a build during the short
> period before beta 2 has to be tested with it as default. We are really
> running out of time. We took it out of i686 and amd64 because it does use
> resources, but you mac people <> i686 and amd64 people. It is possible to
> have it included in the intel-mac version only, or added to ppc . but you
> guys really need make your mind up quickly!!
>
> to make life easier, how does the standard ubuntu ppc & Intel-Mac deal with
> blue tooth? I'd strongly suggest we follow them on blue tooth. There would
> have to one heck of a good a reason to add blue tooth to lubuntu Mac stuff
> if it were not already on standard ubuntu Mac.
>
> As ever, thanks for the continued testing.
>
> Phill.
>
>
>
> On 8 March 2012 23:28, Paul Gorski <paul@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> As for a priority, if I were you, I'd make it low priority to put it back
>> in, as the newer Mac users have Mac OSes which probably work just fine for
>> them and might be jumping on the Lubuntu bandwagon too soon.  And Mac
>> laptops make up the majority of new sales anyway. All new Macs for the past
>> few years have Bluetooth and wireless standard, Mac user would expect the
>> Bluetooth to work in any OS they may move to.
>>
>> And there are all sorts of phones and printers and the like that are
>> Bluetooth, you'd really would want it someday I think, just as long as
>> Bluetooth isn't a big drain on the OS.
>>
>> More important to me would be printing, I've had to manually add CUPS
>> printing to my installs just so I can print.
>> Why aren't printing services enabled by default?
>>
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Paul Gorski
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: Julien Lavergne <gilir@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: lubuntu-qa <lubuntu-qa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Thu, Mar 8, 2012 5:13 pm
>> Subject: [Lubuntu-qa] Blue tooth and Macs
>>
>> Hi Boss,
>>
>> I know we dropped bluetooth from 12.04 for i686 & amd64 due to lack of
>> need. It appears blue tooth is much more used in the Mac world (some of them
>> come with blue tooth keyboard & mouse with wired ones an optional extra, for
>> example). I'm hopeful it is not a case of asking for a Feature Freeze
>> exception, but simply putting blue tooth back into mac build iso's?
>>
>> They have tried manually adding it back in, but it really does not
>> function at all well with pcmanfm when they do. Is it possible to get in by
>> default for them as the Mac ISO's have their own list of packages to be
>> installed so that they can see if it is a pcmanfm problem. If you need a bug
>> raising to support this, I'm sure they will do so.
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> Phill.
>>
>> --
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw
>>
>> --
>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa
>> Post to     : lubuntu-qa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa
>> More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
>
>
>
>
> --
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw
>
> --
> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa
> Post to     : lubuntu-qa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa
> More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
>


References