[Kde-extra-gear] RFC: Replacing kdebluetooth with kdebluetooth-dbus-integration-branch

[Daniel Gollub]

On Thursday 31 May 2007 23:08:48 Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > since few month there is a port/rewrite[2] of kdebluetooth[1] which makes
> > use of the BlueZ DBUS Interface. The main goal of this branch was
> > avoiding any linking against bluez-libs and support the latest features
> > of the BlueZ DBUS Interface. Since bluez-utils provides a DBUS Interface
> > there is an issue with kdebluetooth and pairing Bluetooth devices.
> > bluez-utils requires a application which acts as "Passkey Agent" and
> > register via DBUS to the bluez-utils dameon (hcid). The Agent gets
> > triggered if there is any pairing request.
>
> As far as I understand without this it will not be possible to pair any new
> devices, right?
Unfortunately - yes. 

I wrote once a patch for kdebluetooth trunk which only implements the passkey 
agent. The patch got picked up by most distros.