bluetooth in default desktop install?

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Wed Aug 30 06:07:25 UTC 2006


On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Denis Leroy wrote:

> Alexander Larsson wrote:
>> I see that gnome-bluetooth is now an optional package in the gnome
>> installer group, and things like nautilus-sendto-bluetooth isn't
>> included at all right now.
>> 
>> I think a lot of machines (laptops) these days ship with Bluetooth
>> support though, and a lot of people have mobile phones with Bluetooth
>> support. Maybe we should install packages like this by default so that
>> you can send a file to your phone in an out of the box FC6 install.
>> 
>> Opinions?
>
> We're dealing with 372 Kb of packages here, so I think this is definitely 
> worth installing by default. I also have a bluetooth phone, so this is not 
> just reserved to laptop users.

Another metoo - I have a bluetooth dongle on my desktop for transferring 
photos from phone to computer. Hardly an uncommon task these days, at 
least in this part of the world :)

 	- Panu -




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