[Bug 508448] [NEW] bluetooth applet ui unfit for use

Wolfgang Fahl wf at bitplan.com
Sat Jan 16 16:24:51 GMT 2010


Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: bluez-gnome

The bluetooth applet version 1.8 has two menus
a left-click menu with the entry "Setup new device"
a right-click menu with the entries "Preferences", "Setup new device", "Send files to device", "Browse files on device" and "About".

The preferences dialog then offers a tab "general" and a tab for the current computer's device, with a list
of known devices. There are for icons offered in this dialog a "+" a connect icon, a star icon and a circle with slash icon.

These are the bugs in this ui:
- The icons are not explained. When you hover over the buttons no tooltip is displayed
- the "Setup new device" option is redundant. 
- the most needed function of checking the status and connnection of devices is many clicks away 

some of the improvements should be:
- show the list of connected and available know devices immediately on left click
- when discovering devices with "setup new device" known devices should also be displayed - it's confusing to not 
see them if you didn't remember that they are known.

The whole UI needs to be more user centric - there needs to be a
feedback option in the about dialog to allow for suggestions to improve
the whole thing.

There needs to be a link to the source code that the community can work
with this applet. There are currently only two developers and the
complaints about the undocumented symbols have not been taken care of
for more than 1 1/2 years - obviously the open source idea does not work
to well here ...

Hope some of the issues can be fixed by discussing this bug report.

** Affects: bluez-gnome (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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bluetooth applet ui unfit for use
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/508448
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