Comment 16 for bug 283064

Surely this is a regression? Having to install a heavy and potentially insecure network service for bluetooth file transfers is not a very good solution to a problem that did not exist in the first place - whilst the UI for bluetooth was not brilliant in Gnome 2.22, the stack worked well. I know Gnome has a policy of minimizing settings exposed in the UI, but this is the first case I've come across where previously extremely useful functionality has been removed for the sake of a UI alteration. Does this quote

gnome-bluetooth uses older interfaces, and is not going to be fixed.

mean that a reverse backport (not sure what that's called!) of the 2.22 bluetooth stack is impossible?

Gnome's solid bluetooth stack was previously a credit to the desktop, and I personally believe the decision to remove a large and critical portion and package it separately in an obscure new package is a mistake.