Compatibility with gnome-bluetooth3

[gmbr3]

GNOME Bluetooth 42 has changed the API
I tried to fix it but have now got stuck
My changes so far are available at gmbr3/budgie-desktop

Failed build log:
build-log.txt

[fossfreedom]

gnome-bluetooth3 and gnome-bluetooth are separate.

Budgie requires gnome-bluetooth for its build.

We will need to evaluate whether to support gnome-bluetooth3, bluez or blueman in the future being aware of potential GTK4/libadwaita and other areas that GNOME maybe considering for their latest stack.

Marking this as an enhancement.

[gmbr3]

Yeah I opened this because this will kill Budgie on openSUSE Tumbleweed in the next few days (whenever GNOME 42 ships)

[fossfreedom]

Very odd decision for the distro. They are two different api's and should be packaged separately. Just like libhandy-0 and libhandy-1

[gmbr3]

I can bring it back, they are getting rid because I don't control GNOME so they don't know I need it.

[fossfreedom]

I would prefer that you pursue this with the relevant maintainers of your distro.

As a fallback I suppose, a meson build option could be quickly devised to build without bluetooth support. Would prefer not to go down that route.

[gmbr3]

As I said that is what I will do but that doesn't answer the question of what Budgie does

[JoshStrobl]

Seeing as the existing ABI should stay around, just like libsoup has with libsoup3 being released, a change in how we implement bluetooth support is not a pressing matter. It is something which would be nice to get updated (e.g. use Bluez and upower to communicate with the device and get its charge status, performance connection and disconnection operations, as a couple examples). Right now our bluetooth support is fairly basic, so you would not be losing much just by omiting its support currently.

[JoshStrobl]

I am going to be going this task given we will be revamping our Bluetooth applet and supporting Bluez directly.