GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 598385
Offer to remove old pairing when device already paired
Last modified: 2009-11-23 16:34:43 UTC
If I delete the pairing on my phone the pairing still persists in the view of my notebook. In such a case it is not possible to re-pair with bluetooth wizard as it lacks a possibility to remove outdated pairings. Please add the possibility to remove outdated pairings beforhand setting up new pairings with bluetooth wizard. note: Having the full functionality available in bluetooth-wizard will as well be beneficial for other desktop environments like Xfce or KDE3. package versions: gnome-bluetooth-2.27.90-1.8 bluez-gnome-1.8-7.3
You can already remove outdated pairings, and device setups in the preferences (bluetooth-properties)
That does not help me because I want to use bluetooth-wizard as standalone application for the Xfce and KDE3 desktops. No bluetooth-properties tray icon in these environments!
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(In reply to comment #2) > That does not help me because I want to use bluetooth-wizard as standalone > application for the Xfce and KDE3 desktops. No bluetooth-properties tray icon > in these environments! Bluetooth properties should show up in your preferences menu. And the applet will work just fine as long as you have a notification area. properties != applet (In reply to comment #3) > . And there's no need to add anything to the bug when changing the status. So, apart from the preferences being inaccessible for you, what's the problem?
The problem seems to be that Xfce and KDE3 don`t have a notfication area / system tray that is compatible with gnome. My request is to make bluetooth-wizard usable as standalone app.. It is such a nice application!
(In reply to comment #5) > The problem seems to be that Xfce and KDE3 don`t have a notfication area / > system tray that is compatible with gnome. They both do. Run bluetooth-applet on the command-line to check. And again, that's just the applet. The properties are also available stand-alone (run bluetooth-properties on the command-line). > My request is to make bluetooth-wizard usable as standalone app.. It is such a > nice application! I'd be happy for it to be usable on XFCE. But making it a standalone app is out of the question. Given that bluetooth-wizard isn't even accessible from a .desktop file, you had to drop to the command-line to start with...
*** Bug 598386 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
If I run bluetooth-applet from KDE3 an icon shortly blinks up in the system tray but then it hides and bluetooth-applet becomes inacessible (i.e. it actually does not work with KDE3 & Xfce). The properties menu just lets me select whether to show the icon of bluetooth-applet. This is rather useless. Unfortunately you can not induce bluetooth pairing explicitly from the command line; you need a program like bluetooth-wizard or direct support from the desktop environment which is at the moment only given by Gnome & KDE4!
(In reply to comment #8) > If I run bluetooth-applet from KDE3 an icon shortly blinks up in the system > tray but then it hides and bluetooth-applet becomes inacessible (i.e. it > actually does not work with KDE3 & Xfce). > The properties menu just lets me select whether to show the icon of > bluetooth-applet. This is rather useless. That usually means that either it's not installed properly, or that it didn't recognise any devices being plugged in. Which version of gnome-bluetooth are you using? What's the output of "bluetooth-properties -d". You should have started there instead of asking to add more features to the wizard... > Unfortunately you can not induce bluetooth pairing explicitly from the > command line; you need a program like bluetooth-wizard or direct support from > the desktop environment which is at the moment only given by Gnome & KDE4! gnome-bluetooth works fine on XFCE for a number of people, and I'm not sure I'm supposed to care too much about KDE3.
Oops; have tested bluetooth-properties with a disabled bluetooth interface. Perhaps it should write anything like 'no bluetooth devices discovered' on the common-tab. Bluetooth-properties in deed offers everything that is needed THX. Nonetheless you should let bluetooth-properties be invoked directly fromout of bluetooth-wizard because deleting broken pairings is a precondition for establishing a new pairing. This should at best be mentioned explicitly in the intro of bluetooth-wizard.
Fixed in gnome-bluetooth master. The device will automatically be unpaired before re-pairing is done.