GNOME Bluetooth is a fork of bluez-gnome focused on integration with the GNOME desktop environment.
The bluetooth-sendto command directly to send files to a remote device.
This is free and open source software.
There are various components:
- gnome-bluetooth-3.0 provides the back-end.
- gnome-shell provides the status monitor applet
- gnome-control-center provides the configuration front-end GUI that can be accessed by typing Bluetooth on the Activities overview, or with the gnome-control-center bluetooth command.
Website: wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeBluetooth
Support:
Developer: Bastien Nocera
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
GNOME Bluetooth is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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