Re: ObexFTP removal in Sharing panel

[Ekaterina Gerasimova <kittykat3756 gmail com>]

On 12 November 2013 08:07, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:
> Heya,
>
> I want to remove a part of the Bluetooth section of the "Sharing" panel
> in GNOME 3.10's control-center.
>
> From the (not yet pushed) commit I have for gnome-user-share (which is
> where the feature is actually implemented):
> commit 9dd646b086f1016c6458b7d43b298af8efe8c595
> Author: Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>
> Date:   Sat Nov 9 15:27:02 2013 +0100
>
>     obex: Remove OBEX FTP support
>
>     The problem is two-fold:
>     - There's barely any OBEX FTP clients left for the use cases we
>       want to enable (sending files from a mobile device to the computer),
>       and we don't have a native OBEX FTP client in GNOME anymore (as
>       it was removed in recent gvfs)
>     - It doesn't work as we expect, with no way to disable it when started.
>       We expect to be able to cut the connection on already connected
>       devices, for example, which obexd doesn't allow.
>
> Bluetooth sharing in GNOME 3.10 relies on obexd from BlueZ 5.x, instead
> of the old obex-data-server. Turns out that there were quite a few
> regressions caused by that, and no fix in sight (if at all possible).
>
> Fedora already removed ObexFTP support (as there was no movement on
> this:
> http://www.hadess.net/2011/11/obexftp-in-gnome-non-update.html
>
> I'm keen to remove the code from gnome-control-center so as not to give
> users false hopes. Most of the code in the Sharing panel is already
> dependent on the necessary system bits being installed before showing up
> (vino for screen sharing, rygel for media sharing), so I don't think
> that removing/hiding forever this section is going to cause huge trouble
> for the docs.
>
> Can I get some acks on getting that code removed, and the support fixed?

> From the docs point of view, we cannot document it if it doesn't work,
so I would prefer if it was removed from the UI until it is fixed.

The panels that are shown under specific conditions do already cause
problems for documentation because they are a pain to test but are not
as bad as a panel that doesn't work.

Thanks for the the detailed report and your blogposts about changes,
both are very helpful.

> Cheers
>
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