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

[Andreas Henriksson]

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