Die systray icon die!

Even if you have a bluetooth device, the icon should not appear unless it has something to say.

Thanks for your bug report. Somebody of the team should forward the request to the upstream developers.

This has been fixed in the CVS version and the icon display policy is controllable via a GConf entry.

This is post-Edgy material.

Fixed upstream in CVS.

I am not sure when I have the time to release a new upstream version, but until then you can apply the attached patch.

Tollef Fog Heen proposes the following patch, only displaying the icon, when it has "something to say".

I think that I forgot to mention that my patch fixes another problem with the D-Bus proxy handling and it brings it in sync with upstream. You might wanna check the upstream CVS log.

I think we're going to commit Tollef's change for now. We're going to release in two weeks and will make it nice and pretty for Edgy+1 - I'll have another look at the upstream CVS for the dbus fix though.

Thanks Marcel for all your work. You absolutely ROCK!

 bluez-gnome (0.5-2ubuntu2) edgy; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/patches/01-disable-icon-when-inactive.patch:
     - apply patch by Tollef Fog Heen to only show the systray icon on
       activity (Malone: #65645)

I don't see the icon unless I choose to pair the device with my mobile phone. I think that the icon should be activated when I connect any bluetooth device.

This only if some general actions can be done through it, such as:
- toggle device
- toggle discover mode
- do a scan to find devices for pairing

does the applet has some of these features? (since I can't discover how to check, because the icon is not shown)

I opened the bug report because I saw a bluetooth systray icon even though I had no BT device on my PC. But also consider that for most PCs BT is an USB adapter that can be plugged in, but for most laptops it is builtin and so is always plugged; in this case it makes no sense to always show the systray icon. You should _not_ have a system tray icon for each hardware component that you have on your computer -- that path leads to madness.

excuse me but how are you supposed to switch from connectable mode to
discoverable mode without any icon? maybe doing a
dbus-send --system --dest=org.bluez /org/bluez/hci0
org.bluez.Adapter.SetMode string:discoverable

Do you think that the user leads to madness if he sees a tray icon for
his bluetooth device or if every time he wants to do an operation he
has to write mysterious commands?

In my desktop there is no bluetooth preference in the menu, does it
exist in yours? If it exists everything could be done through it

> In my desktop there is no bluetooth preference in the menu, does it exist in yours? If it exists everything could be done through it

I don't think it exists, but I agree it should. It just doesn't belong in the system tray. Maybe it should be made available in System->Administration, perhaps merged into the Networking preferences dialog, I'm not sure.

It exists in fedora "Bluetooth Manager" I think. I've just installed
it to give a try! Why not in Ubuntu? quite sad!

Starting with bluez-gnome-0.6 all this is possible. It introduces a Bluetooth preferences application that lets you select the icon display policy, configure your device name and class of device. It also makes it possible to switch between connectable and discoverable mode.

Oh! So we must blame ubuntu, since we have 0.5! We will wait. Thank you!

The bug is closed, please move any other complaints to a new bug report, please. bluez-gnome was released on 22.10.2006, so 4 days before release, that was too late.