GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 740369
Move Bluetooth sharing to the Bluetooth panel
Last modified: 2015-07-30 18:14:12 UTC
It seems that a lot of people struggle to find controls for receiving files over Bluetooth. One reason for this, I think, is that Bluetooth sharing isn't actually sharing - it is about receiving files from other devices, rather than using bluetooth to share content with others. Moving the controls for Bluetooth sharing to the Bluetooth panel will make them easier to find, and will be a more logical organisation. Mockups for the Bluetooth panel: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/system-settings/bluetooth/bluetooth-panel.png
This has been a repeated issue in the past, and the current solution has problems (see bug 736534) - adding as a 3.16 target.
Has any progress been made here? If not, this is not a 3.16 "GNOME Target" as we are under UI Freeze for 3.16.
I did no work on gnome-bluetooth at all this cycle.
(In reply to Bastien Nocera from comment #3) > I did no work on gnome-bluetooth at all this cycle. + UI change and under freeze now => punting. (Thanks for the feedback!)
I'm not a designer, but as a user finding suitable meeting sharing bluetooth settings in the "Sharing panel". I believe most appropriate to find a link to the sharing panel from the bluetooth panel, similar to that found in the keyboard panel. I think the mistake is that the system does not display a notification that says you are trying to receive a file or can not receive the file | configure sharing. thanks related bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748274
Allan, see bug 748274 as well.
Created attachment 308229 [details] [review] settings-widget: Add Obex preferences
Comment on attachment 308229 [details] [review] settings-widget: Add Obex preferences Patch is not functional yet.
Created attachment 308232 [details] [review] sharing: Remove "Bluetooth" (Obex) sharing It will be moved to the Bluetooth panel instead.
Created attachment 308233 [details] [review] bluetooth: Add Obex sharing keywords FIXME: bump gnome-bluetooth version
*** Bug 748274 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 308237 [details] [review] settings-widget: Add Obex preferences ** UNFINISHED **
Created attachment 308297 [details] [review] settings-widget: Add Obex preferences
I've added the changes necessary for gnome-user-share in bug 753058. But, more realistically, the whole ObexPush code should be directly in the Bluetooth panel, as that would avoid us having to track another process, and means we could have the "ask" notifications directly in-app. The changes in bug 753058 will allow transfers from bonded/paired devices without asking, and will ask, through a notification, for unknown devices. Could you see what we could do for in-app notifications?
Created attachment 308478 [details] [review] settings-widget: Add Obex preferences As we're moving ObexPush preferences to the Bluetooth panel, and that unpaired devices will need the computer to be visible to be able to send files to it, move the code to receive files via Obex to the widget itself, so that it can be launched when the dialogue is visible, and turned off when the panel exits, or the application quits (whether unexpectedly or not).
Comment on attachment 308478 [details] [review] settings-widget: Add Obex preferences Attachment 308478 [details] pushed as dae7b63 - settings-widget: Add Obex preferences
Attachment 308232 [details] pushed as 9d45904 - sharing: Remove "Bluetooth" (Obex) sharing Attachment 308233 [details] pushed as e59e43b - bluetooth: Add Obex sharing keywords