GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 602860
usability: no way to guess Bluetooth receiving in gnome-file-share-properties
Last modified: 2009-12-01 18:02:40 UTC
Steps that average person do to receive file over bluetooth: 1) Bluetooth applet is easily visible. Search in menus and properties. Nothing is avaliable there. 2) Then go to Bluetooth properties from the Control Center menu. Nothing is avaliable there. 3) If everything fails, read manual. Even documentation keeps files receiving options in secret. 4) Failed, impossible to receive file. 5) Ask expert. It is nearly impossible to guess, that File sharing options is the right place for setting Bluetooth file receiving via OBEX. Proposed fix: - Add "Sharing and receiving options" referring to gnome-file-share-properties menu item in Bluetooth applet menu or - Add "Sharing and receiving" button referring to gnome-file-share-properties in Bluetooth properties or - Move everything related to Bluetooth from gnome-file-share-properties to bluetooth-properties and optionally add "Sharing over Bluetooth" into gnome-file-share-properties.
It's in the FAQ: http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-bluetooth/stable/gnome-bluetooth-FAQ.html.en Patches to make this better welcome.
Created attachment 148452 [details] [review] gnome-bluetooth-receive.patch Proposed fix.
Adding that in the applet is out of the question. 2 things that could be done: - in the properties, remove the useless about button, and add a link to gnome-user-share with the code you have above, similarly to what's done in control-center capplets - in the help, I believe yelp can launch applications, find out how, and add a link for that in the FAQ
Created attachment 148468 [details] [review] gnome-bluetooth-receive-doc.patch I have been thinking about adding a button just right of About or so. But then I considered, that the properties dialog does not contain any sending features, that is why I decided to not add receive options. (And document this fact.) Regarding the receiving: I am moving the issue from the FAQ to the applet documentation. As no other section of this doc launch application, I linked to file sharing documentation instead. You should probably create new screenshots.
Comment on attachment 148452 [details] [review] gnome-bluetooth-receive.patch I've committed a patch to add a "Receive Files" button to the preferences. Could you please update your documentation patch to mention the preferences and not the applet? ne - gnome-bluetooth-receive-doc.patch - none
Created attachment 148825 [details] [review] gnome-bluetooth-receive-doc2.patch Well, you are the maintainer. If you prefer "Receive files" button in the configuration dialog, then you can apply this patch for the documentation instead of gnome-bluetooth-receive-doc.patch.