Nautilus send-to not working over bluetooth

[Rogue]

Hi Ian,

Ian Chapman wrote:
> Rogue wrote:
>
>> I am unable to send files over bluetooth using the Nautilus send-to 
>> manager. Every time I select bluetooth as an option, it keeps on 
>> searching and never reports any devices.
>
> Yep, it's broken unfortunately. I get exactly the same issue. You can 
> however use it from the command line by doing the following:
>
> gnome-obex-send --dest=<BDADDR> <file>
>
> You have to use the hardware address of the bluetooth device you want 
> to send to, but typing
>
Thanks for the tip. It is sad that these issues exist. But I guess, we 
can only hope that things will change. I say hope, because, even though 
there is a patch available, it is neither available in updates-testing 
nor in stable :(

I guess as an alternative I could configure a nautilus action with my 
phone's bluetooth address.
later,
Rogue
> hcitool scan
>
> ...will list them.
>
>> A blog entry[1] by Harold Hoyer mentions that he has submitted the 
>> patch and that the FC6 updates will follow. I have the latest 
>> /stable/ updates for FC6, but I am not sure this patch has made it in.
>
> No the patch has not made it in yet.
>
>> If someone has a clue on which package this should be in, the please 
>> let me know the package details. If this patch has not yet made it 
>> in, then is there a timeline for this package to get in?
>
> The package in question is gnome-bluetooth. As for a timescale i have 
> no  idea, it's up to the maintainer I suppose. However there's an 
> interesting entry for the package in bugzilla which mentions that the 
> maintainer was told not to include a newer version of the package.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=210252
>