About the GNOME Bluetooth subsystem
GNOME Bluetooth was originally developed by Edd Dumbill, and its primary maintainer is now Bastien Nocera. The software is free, licensed under the GPL.
The core of GNOME Bluetooth is two packages: gnome-bluetooth, which provides desktop level support for Bluetooth devices, and libbtctl, which provides a GLib style library of application support for accessing Bluetooth under Linux.
As well as the desktop support, the following programs build on top of GNOME Bluetooth:
Gnome-bluetooth allows the discovery of devices like a phone, and the pairing. Once devices are paired, their content can be browsed through obex with gnome-vfs-obexftp, and they eventually become useable as remote controls for instance (provided some hidd daemon runs on the system).
Mailing list
All aspects of GNOME Bluetooth and PhoneManager are discussed on the gnome-bluetooth mailing list.
Download
GNOME Bluetooth is available from the GNOME FTP servers:
Packages
Arch Linux and Frugalware Linux users can type pacman -S gnome-bluetooth
Ubuntu users can type sudo aptitude install gnome-bluetooth
Foresight Linux users, type conary update gnome-bluetooth
