Comment 3 for bug 1032355

1) I have never seeen this working, through several releases of Ubuntu.
    Other bugs (e.g. 407962) were posted years ago, and the bug was never fixed.)

2) The applet seems to make no distinction between bluetooth being turned off in software or in hardware.
    Use the utility
      rfkill
    to turn the radios on and off, and to see their hardware state.

3) It would be very good to have a clear graphical indication of whether the radio is turned off in hardware or software.
    I would propose to draw a line or cross over the bluetooth icon when the bluetooth radio is turned off,
    as well as providing a menu item saying so explicitly.

Thanks!