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Bug 746698 - Cryptic message when sending files to iphone fails
Cryptic message when sending files to iphone fails
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-bluetooth
Classification: Core
Component: sendto
3.16.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-bluetooth-general-maint@gnome.bugs
gnome-bluetooth-general-maint@gnome.bugs
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-03-24 17:14 UTC by Cosimo Cecchi
Modified: 2015-06-08 12:37 UTC
See Also:
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2015-03-24 17:14 UTC, Cosimo Cecchi 		Details

Description Cosimo Cecchi 2015-03-24 17:14:19 UTC 
Created attachment 300212 [details]
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iOS devices do not support receiving files over bluetooth.
Still, they are advertised in the bluetooth-sendto dialog. Trying to send a file fails with a cryptic error message that mentions GDBus. See attached screenshot.

Ideally, iOS devices would never be displayed in the dialog since we know they don't support receiving files, but at least the error message could be improved.
Comment 1 Leslie Zhai 2015-06-08 02:25:32 UTC 
Hi Cosimo,

You can change it as you wanna ;-) http://git.kernel.org/cgit/bluetooth/bluez.git/tree/obexd/client/bluetooth.c#n234

Regards,
Leslie Zhai
Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2015-06-08 12:37:07 UTC 
Fixed in master for GNOME 3.16 and later.