GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 641422
Remove "Show Bluetooth icon" checkbox
Last modified: 2011-02-06 22:01:01 UTC
It seems that un-checking the "Show Bluetooth icon" setting in the Bluetooth panel of the System Settings has no effect. The bluetooth icon (as beautifully minimalistic as it is) shows up all the time. I'm running a recently built jhbuild of Gnome Shell on Fedora 14, if that is relevant.
GSetting is org.gnome.Bluetooth show-icon, should check with the designers that we actually want the setting before hooking that up.
In short, I don't think we should support it. There are a few reasons. In the original designs I had one of these options in each related system settings panel. I realized that it doesn't work very well when you have the presence of the indicator be automatic based on capabilities (eg. you don't have a bluetooth device) and manual based on a checkbox. That is usually a messy combination. So we've removed these options from all but the bluetooth panel. These symbolic status icons are intended to be non intrusive and limited in number so I doubt there is much cost involved with seeing them on the screen. Another issue is that the top bar of GNOME 3 is not a personalization opportunity. It should be stable, standard, and easily recognizable. And I don't like the idea of customizing the appearance at all. (This goes for the clock as well).
(In reply to comment #2) > So we've removed these options from all but the bluetooth > panel. May I ask why it wasn't removed there as well? If we don't want to support hiding the icon, then what's the point of having a non-working option for it?
It doesn't live in gnome-control-center :) Ask Bastien.
(In reply to comment #4) > It doesn't live in gnome-control-center :) Ask Bastien. OK, reassigning to gnome-bluethooth then ...
commit 17f5f382d95d57274468d185b2df7cbbbe8ad54c Author: Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net> Date: Sun Feb 6 22:00:37 2011 +0000 applet: Don't use the "show-icon" preference https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=641422 commit 6e512b650ff8a103664561f54f1cfe2579a6cfeb Author: Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net> Date: Sun Feb 6 22:00:15 2011 +0000 properties: Remove "Show Bluetooth icon" preference https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=641422