Inconsistent terminology for Bluetooth pairing

[Ben Harris]

The "Personal File Sharing Preferences" window has two sections relating to Bluetooth, and those use different terminology (and user interface features) to describe Bluetooth pairing, both from one another and from the main Bluetooth settings.

Under "Share Files over Bluetooth", the requirement for pairing is controlled by a tickbox labelled "Require remote devices to bond with this computer", while under "Receive Files over Bluetooth", it's controlled by a pop-up menu labelled "Accept files:" with options "Always" and "Only for set up devices". As far as I can tell from the docuementation (which disagrees slightly about how the user interface should look), these controls have equivalent effects and control whether files can be respectively browsed or sent by unpaired devices. Meanwhile, the Bluetooth indicator menu uses the phrase "Set-up [sic] New Device", the Bluetooth pane of System Settings describes certain devices as "Paired", and the Ubuntu Desktop Guide explains how to "Connect your computer to a Bluetooth device" but helpfully explains that "This is also called pairing the Bluetooth devices".

Personally, I think that both of these settings should be tickboxes, and their labels should both be phrased in terms of "paired" deviced, since that's standard Bluetooth terminology. For consistency with the Ubuntu Desktop Guide, perhaps "connected" would be better (but I think it's less obvious what it means).

PS: I've just found the "Control sharing over Bluetooth" page of the Ubuntu Desktop Guide, which adds to the fun by introducing "trusted devices", which are apparently yet another way of talking about paired devices.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: gnome-user-share 3.0.4-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-24.32-generic 3.16.4
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-24-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.5
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sat Nov 22 10:53:26 2014
DistributionChannelDescriptor:
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 # For more information see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributionChannelDescriptor
 canonical-oem-motts-20100121-3
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-file-share-properties
InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-06-09 (1626 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu GNU/Linux 9.10 "Karmic" - Build i386 LIVE Binary 20100121-21:52
SourcePackage: gnome-user-share
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-08-15 (98 days ago)

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-user-share - 3.18.3-2

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gnome-user-share (3.18.3-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Fully drop Bluetooth from packaging, obsolete since 3.18.0.
  * Bump Standards-Version to 4.1.0

 -- Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> Sun, 03 Sep 2017 10:28:16 -0400

gnome-user-share (3.18.3-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release.
  * Drop 30-build-Properly-expand-paths-in-gnome-user-share-webd.patch, merged
    upstream.
  * Bump debhelper compat level to 10.
  * Use non-multiarch path (/usr/lib/gnome-user-share) for libexecdir.

 -- Michael Biebl <email address hidden> Tue, 20 Sep 2016 12:48:27 +0200

gnome-user-share (3.18.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release.
  * Add Build-Depends on systemd on Linux to get the correct path for the
    systemd user unit directory.
  * Add patch to ensure systemd is not mandatory so we can build on non-Linux
    architectures.
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.8.
  * Drop debian/dirs, no longer needed.
  * Convert from cdbs to dh.
  * Bump debhelper compatibility level to 9.
  * Add patch to properly expand paths in gnome-user-share-webdav.desktop.

 -- Michael Biebl <email address hidden> Fri, 02 Sep 2016 18:16:19 +0200

gnome-user-share (3.18.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release.
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.7

 -- Andreas Henriksson <email address hidden> Thu, 24 Mar 2016 16:12:22 +0100

gnome-user-share (3.18.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release.
    - drops ObexPush support which moved to gnome-bluetooth.
  * debian/rules: drop moving of obexpush autostart files.

 -- Andreas Henriksson <email address hidden> Fri, 25 Sep 2015 10:15:56 +0200

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

The latest version of gnome-user-share does not provide any GUI interface itself but is just a service that can be used by a frontend like the Settings > Sharing > File Sharing panel in gnome-control-center. Therefore, I am closing this bug.

[Norbert (nrbrtx)]

Can you reproduce this bug with newer version of Ubuntu MATE?