Ubuntu
indicator-bluetooth package

Bluetooth icon has a padlock emblem when paired with device

Bug #1311211 reported by Matthew Paul Thomas on 2014-04-22

This bug affects 6 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Ubuntu theme	New	Undecided	Unassigned
	indicator-bluetooth (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

indicator-bluetooth 0.0.6+14.04.20140207-0ubuntu2, Ubuntu 14.04

When a Bluetooth device is paired, the Bluetooth icon has a padlock emblem. This makes no sense.

<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bluetooth#icon>: "If a device is paired, a lozenge Bluetooth icon between two arrowheads, with accessible label 'Bluetooth (paired)'."

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote on 2014-04-22:

screenshot of the problem Edit (1.1 KiB, image/png)

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2014-04-23:

Thanks, that icon is used when a device is paired. Knowing when somebody connects to e.g your laptop is useful information, do you think we could consider adding that to the spec?

Changed in indicator-bluetooth (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed
importance:	Undecided → Low

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) on 2014-04-24

summary:

- Bluetooth icon has a padlock emblem sometimes
+ Bluetooth icon has a padlock emblem when paired with device

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote on 2014-04-29:

Heh, that's currently an open question in the spec. I agree it's probably a good idea, but a padlock doesn't make sense as the emblem.

Changed in indicator-bluetooth (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)

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reanjr (reanjr) wrote on 2014-07-09:

Why wouldn't the icon just turn blue, like the messaging icon (and - you know - BLUEtooth)? The lock is confusing.

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote on 2014-08-22:

reanjr, that's an enticing suggestion. However, if you were using a Bluetooth keyboard or mouse, the result would be that the Bluetooth icon was blue almost all the time, which wouldn't be good. (And it would make you even less likely to notice the messaging icon when it went blue.)

Anyway, I updated the specification back in December to describe what the paired icon should be. It shouldn't involve a padlock, because that's a non-sequitur. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bluetooth?action=diff&rev2=35&rev1=34>

Changed in indicator-bluetooth (Ubuntu):
assignee:	Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) → nobody
status:	Confirmed → Triaged
description:	updated

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david38840 (dridleypto) wrote on 2014-10-30:

I am having the same problem. It happened for no reason at all. The problem is that when I turn on my bluetooth speaker and the padlock appears, it doesn't connect to the speak so I can't use it???? Does anyone know how I can resolve this problem please?

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vicki (vickilynv1112) wrote on 2015-10-23:

If my device is connected to my laptop why won't it play?

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote on 2015-11-24:

(Any problem with *using* a paired Bluetooth device should be reported as a separate bug.)