We need a better and more complete "Bluetooth preferences" GUI in control pannel

[ttoine]

At the moment, the only way to set HIDD_ENABLED=1 in /etc/default/bluetooth is to edit the textfile.

If we want to provide a good end-user bluetooth management, the Bluetooth Preferences Gui in Gnome pannel /System/Preferences should be more complete. We need too to have the possibility to create internet connection via bluetooth with a Gui. This is not only used by geeks, a lot of consultants use that to stay connected when moving from office.

Can we imagine that the Gnome Bluetooth applet can work like the "Network Manager" : left-clic on it would show the list of peripherals, right clic provides access to preferences, and selecting a device in the list would launch a separate window with the list of service and the possibility to configure what the user wants to use in a easy way ?? (or something like that...)

Toine

[ttoine (ttoine)]

It may be too late to have that kind of tool/gui for feisty+1, but it would be great to think about it. Command lines and text file edit for configuration are not a good way to think the use of bluetooth. And having just a Bluetooth icon close to the date, but can not do anything with it, that is too limited

[ttoine (ttoine)]

You will find my test plan enclosed, see that it works but there is a lot of errors. The cell phone is a Sony Ericsson K800, the laptop is a Sony Vaio TX2XP with Intel Centrino/Wifi/Bluetooth chipsets.

[Jérôme Guelfucci (jerome-guelfucci-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for your report. You could have a look at the following blueprints : https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/?searchtext=bluetooth and contribute with your suggestions there.

[ttoine (ttoine)]

Jérôme, you will find a new blueprint here for this bug : https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/bluetooth-manager

[Jérôme Guelfucci (jerome-guelfucci-deactivatedaccount)]

Ok, thank you.

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

this is basically what bug 269540 tries to do.

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

This should be significantly improved in the BlueZ Gnome 1.9 package that entered intrepid yesterday.