Bluetooth discoverability confusing

[Michał Sawicz]

Steps to reproduce:
1. go to Bluetooth in Settings
2. go out of the Bluetooth pane

When going in, the page says "Discoverable" and lists the name. When you go out... is it still discoverable? Was it already discoverable before?

The indicator icon (or menu) doesn't change, either, so there's basically no way to know if you're discoverable when outside of the settings page.

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

The page should actually display a spinner for a second to show that it changes from Not discoverable to Discoverable as you reach that page.

Could you try again to make sure whether you see that at the beginning when the page is just opened? Otherwise we may need to increase the timer.

[Michał Sawicz (saviq)]

W dniu 19.11.2014 o 16:52, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre pisze:
> The page should actually display a spinner for a second to show that it
> changes from Not discoverable to Discoverable as you reach that page.
>
> Could you try again to make sure whether you see that at the beginning
> when the page is just opened? Otherwise we may need to increase the
> timer.

Yeah, it does look like there's a split-second timeout (it actually
looks like a deferred initialization of the view, especially as the
checkbox above slides at the same time)

That still doesn't help with what happens when I close that page.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

After force-closing System Settings and relaunching it, there is a tiny pause the first time I visit the Bluetooth screen, but none on subsequent occasions, and none when I exit the screen. So the timers aren't working. The checkbox animation is probably bug 1276066.

This doesn't require any design work: the spec already spells out that there should be a one-second pause between entering the screen and starting discoverability, and a one-second pause between stopping discoverability and exiting the screen. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bluetooth#Discoverability>

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

That's not a bug, the device is only discoverable when the settings panel is open