On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 14:15:07 -0700
Konstantin Svist <fry....@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm running F20 XFCE and the bluetooth app leaves a lot to be desired.
> I've been using Blueman before upgrading and it was great. Currently
> I'm using the KDE systray app (bluedevil?)
> 
> There's no obvious way to install blueman; yum just says it was
> deprecated by bluez -- which is not true (it only is in the sense that
> the older blueman version is not compatible with bluez5)

Right, Fedora moved to bluez5, and blueman doesn't work with bluez5. 

> Does anyone know how to get blueman running (hopefully without having
> to compile it)?

You would not only have to build blueman, but bluez4 and rebuild all
your applications with it and possibly port some of them back to 4 that
dropped support for it. ;( 

Happily, I see there is development again on porting blueman to bluez5,
so when/if that happens hopefully it will be shipped again. 

kevin


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