[System Settings] There should be a way to set a custom device name

[Michał Sawicz]

Our devices are currently named by the model number, with no way to change that name. It shows up over:
- MTP, where the name is "Aquaris E4.5"
- Bluetooth, where the name is "MX4 Ubuntu Edition"
- DHCP, where the device name is "ubuntu-phablet"
  - for example "ssh ubuntu-phablet.znh"

etc.

Having two devices of the same model means I can't then easily identify which one I want to interact with.

It should be possible to set a custom device name that will then be used in all those cases.

UX Resolution:

Please see attached image device-name for the solution.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

that's a duplicate of bug #1422083?

[Michał Sawicz (saviq)]

In a sense, yes, but BT is just one place where this would be useful. We should have a common place where we store a device name.

[Michał Sawicz (saviq)]

Feel free to mark dupe, as long as you mention other use cases (MTP being one of them).

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could we just change the hostname there?

[Michał Sawicz (saviq)]

Hostname is one thing, but how do you set it to "Seb's Phone Extraordinaire"?

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Could someone please expand on "MTP, Bluetooth etc"? What is the full list of use cases where this name appears?

[Femma (femma)]

How Apple do it

[Femma (femma)]

The UX Solution

[Michał Sawicz (saviq)]

Looks like http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/hostnamed/ is what we should use to store the different names.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

before using hostnamed be aware of bug #1162475