[Nix-dev] Objections to switching to Bluez5?

[Kirill Elagin]

Speaking about KDE, looks like we need bluedevil >= 2 and it's still RC1.
>From my experience it's pretty stable but probably we should wait…

That's a pity, Bluez4 sucks so much!


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Кирилл Елагин


On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 9:28 PM, Kirill Elagin <kirelagin at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd like to upgrade to Bluez 5 since I have no idea how to control Bluez 4
> from the commandline.
>
> The bad news here is that Bluez 5 completely dropped support for
> microphones (that is, one
> can user his headset to play music, but not to talk). [1]
>
> That's why it would be nice to leave users some choice: Bluez 4 or 5.
>
> Also PA 5 is required to have BT audio playback with Bluez 5.
> It looks like PA 4 -> 5 upgrade should be smooth.
> I could look into possibility of this upgrade but I'm not sure how to deal
> with
> systemd-related stuff in PA expression. It looks like currently PulseAudio
> is
> being built without systemd support for some reason.
>
>
>   [1]: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/5.0/
>
>
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> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 9:14 PM, Aristid Breitkreuz <aristidb at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> PA 5 brings Bluez 5 audio, no idea how easy it is to get running.
>> Am 11.04.2014 18:51 schrieb "Kirill Elagin" <kirelagin at gmail.com>:
>>
>> Why? Audio profiles weren't working anyway (at least, for me)…
>>>
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>>> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 8:42 PM, Aristid Breitkreuz <aristidb at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> This would require a pulseaudio update.
>>>> Am 11.04.2014 18:40 schrieb "Kirill Elagin" <kirelagin at gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>> Any news on that?
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm sure I've been using Bluez 5 with KDE 4.11.5 on my Gentoo laptop
>>>>> for quite some time.
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 12:02 AM, Aristid Breitkreuz <
>>>>> aristidb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> It appears that KDE does not support Bluez 5 at this point, so this
>>>>>> appears to be out of the question for now.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2013/8/27 Aristid Breitkreuz <aristidb at gmail.com>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm currently updating packages, so Bluez5 works again. I believe it
>>>>>>> was not made the default way back when because it did not support Kernel
>>>>>>> 3.2, right? Well, now 3.4 is default so how about switching NixOS over to
>>>>>>> Bluez5 (assuming I get it all to work...)?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Aristid
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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