Bug#721677: more background on the gnome-user-share bug

[Stefan Krastanov]

Hm... I just did `sudo apt-get install gnome-control-center/unstable`
logged out and then back in and the control center still has no
mention of sharing preferences.

I also get the following version:

% gnome-control-center --version
gnome-control-center 3.4.3.1

When it seem that at least 3.7.3 is necessary...

I guess I will try to install from experimental.

On 8 September 2013 20:06, Stefan Krastanov <krastanov.stefan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you, I will do as you have suggested (use unstable for
> gnome-control-center).
>
>
> On 8 September 2013 19:27, Andreas Henriksson <andreas at fatal.se> wrote:
>> Hello Stefan!
>>
>> Thanks for your quick and elaborate description.
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 08, 2013 at 05:47:55PM -0400, Stefan Krastanov wrote:
>> [...]
>>> - Install debian testing, use it for a week, get into the need to send
>>> file by bluetooth to it.
>>> - Gnome Help Page / Wiki on sharing tells me to install
>>> `gnome-user-share`. For convenience I also installed `nautilus-share`.
>>> - Gnome Help Page / Wiki tells me to go to settings->etc->etc, where a
>>> shortcut to `gnome-file-share-properties` should be present.
>>> - No such shortcut is present. Studying previous versions of the
>>> `gnome-user-share` package shows that it contained the
>>> `gnome-file-share-properties` executable before, but not anymore.
>>>
>>> And IMPORTANT REMARK: my gnome-control-center has no mention of
>>> sharing preferences whatsoever.
>> [...]
>>
>> Ah, I should have seen that parts of gnome 3.8 are now reaching testing.
>> With parts, meaning functionality loss (because of the other parts not
>> yet there).
>>
>> As I understand it, there's no actual program malfunction - just "simply"
>> no user inferface for configuration?!...
>>
>> In that case, I'm sorry to say that this problem will likely not be
>> resolved until we manage to get all of the gnome 3.8 transitions done
>> and get gnome-control-center 3.8.x into unstable/testing.
>>
>> For now I can only suggest installing it (and the rest of gnome 3.8) from
>> experimental if you urgently need the functionality back.
>>
>> Sorry for the temporary inconvenience.
>>
>> --
>> Andreas Henriksson