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Re: blueman & bluetooth

 

Hi UH,

from the horses mouth, lubuntu-desktop is the meta package and can be
safely accepted for removal.

@ Karl, I did have a dig through L-FAQ, but couldn't find the section
noting this ( it was there..)

thanks,

Phill.

On 7 October 2012 14:37, Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ooooh,
>
> that does not seem normal behaviour!
>
> @ Julien: Any thoughts?
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill.
>
>
> On 7 October 2012 08:17, UH <uhtlmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> lubuntu-desktop
>>
>> 2012/10/7 Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>> > Hiyas...
>> >
>> > Desktop, or the lubuntu-meta package? The removal of the meta package is
>> > expected behaviour.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Phill.
>> >
>> > On 7 October 2012 00:05, UH <uhtlmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Ok, ok, i know, you don't like here so much bluetooth, but me and i
>> >> think a lot of other simple users need it on a daily base. Anyway . .
>> >> . Playing around with 12.10 i386 on a netbook i realize that lubunto
>> >> points to blueman (instead of gnome bluetooth - when i tried to delete
>> >> it in synaptic i saw lubuntu desktop would have to go with, which
>> >> indicates there is a dependency). Blueman shows up correctly as
>> >> bluetooth manager in System Settings. So far, so good.
>> >>
>> >> BUT: if there is blueman it should cooperate with pcmanfm - and in the
>> >> version which comes automatically by installation it does not. When i
>> >> try to read files on a bluetooth device, blueman laments about no
>> >> thunar there ;) I know it's not absolutely trivial but really easy to
>> >> adapt blueman to pcmanfm. Here comes the instruction how it works:
>> >> http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=54137&p=410284#p312665
>> >> (go to the linked discussion in the blueman forum as well - musial
>> >> gave save one point a perfect instruction). Substitute pcmanfm to
>> >> dolphin. May be that helper files could be put on to the installation
>> >> cd?
>> >>
>> >> A final note: I still did not try out practically how blueman does. In
>> >> my experience it was slow, at least slower than gnome-bluetooth. On
>> >> intel based computers that diefference wasn' t really a big affair, on
>> >> the mac ppc blueman was dead slow and practically unuseable.
>> >>
>> >> Uli
>> >>
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