bluetooth-properties: "Mode of operation" options are unclear

[Guillaume Desmottes]

Binary package hint: bluez-gnome

The "Mode of operation" options are unclear to me. What's the difference between "Other devices can connect" and "Visible and connectable for other devices" ? I just don't know and there is nothing helping me to understand the difference. It should at leat contain a tooltip explaining each option.

[Baptiste Mille-Mathias (bmillemathias)]

I would confirm such bug, the options are quite confusing.

[Guillaume Desmottes (cassidy)]

Bug reported upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=548675

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

This has been improved upon for the 1.8 packages in Intrepid.

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

Here's what the new options look like. If those still are hard to understand, please reopen.

[Øyvind Stegard (oyvindstegard)]

The bluetooth-properties program has four buttons displayed under the list of "Known devices". Only three of those buttons are halfway easy to understand: '+' for add device, a trash-icon for removing a paired device and an "unplugged socket"-icon for disconnecting a device. The other one is harder: What does the '(i)' icon mean ? Information ? None of the buttons offer any tooltips. There is no help. I'm having a heck of a time figuring out how to always allow my bluetooth keyboard to connect to my computer so that it can stay reliably paired.