[Nix-dev] Objections to switching to Bluez5?

[Kirill Elagin]

Ok, I'll open an issue, but not right now (go ahead and do that if you have
some spare time).

BTW, you already can install Bluez5 if you don't care about audio profiles
and KDE support
just to use it from the console (that's what I did for now).


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Кирилл Елагин


On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Carles Pagès <page.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> I only started playing with bluetooth the other day and also relied on
> bluez5. Perhaps we could open an issue to track making bluez5 the default,
> with all that info?
>
>
> 2014-04-11 19:34 GMT+02:00 Kirill Elagin <kirelagin at gmail.com>:
>
>> 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/
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Кирилл Елагин
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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>>>>> Кирилл Елагин
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Кирилл Елагин
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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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