Ubuntu
gnome-bluetooth package

Don't display in "Startup Applications" should be reverted

Bug #832007 reported by Doug McMahon
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-bluetooth (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
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Bug Description

Users that have but don't intend to use bluetooth should be given the opportunity to disable the applet thru Startup Applications

For instance here on this laptop I have bluetooth but will never use it, in fact in actually causes a slight heat increase when enabled
Even though it's been disabled in bios ubuntu still enables and turns on by default

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-bluetooth 3.1.4-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.13-generic 3.0.3
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Aug 23 09:25:37 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha i386 (20110820)
SourcePackage: gnome-bluetooth
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
mtime.conffile..etc.xdg.autostart.bluetooth.applet.unity.desktop: 2011-08-20T23:04:47.098901

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Doug McMahon (mc3man) wrote :
Launchpad Janitor (janitor)
Changed in gnome-bluetooth (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Sam_ (and-sam) wrote :

Having the problem all along and asking for an option to disable it. Bug #815539

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

thank you for your bug report, the place to turn services off is not the session programs list though, it would be rather by turning bluetooth off in the control-center bluetooth configuration, did you try to do that?

Changed in gnome-bluetooth (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Doug McMahon (mc3man) wrote :

The problem here is that with the unity login, while even if disabled in g-c-c/bluetooth, (which it always is), it's shown as active in the indicator
So I'm sure your correct that only the g-c-c setting matters though then I wonder what's the point then of having the applet running by default on every restart

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Sam_ (and-sam) wrote :

Even when turned off in g-c-c it's setting doesn't survive reboot, within startup applications it did.
Since I have splash disabled I'm able to observe the message 'stopping bluetooth' on reboot.
Lines from syslog.
Aug 27 19:14:27 bluetoothd[1087]: Adapter /org/bluez/1087/hci0 has been disabled
Aug 27 19:48:48 bluetoothd[1094]: Starting SDP server
Aug 27 19:48:48 bluetoothd[1094]: Adapter /org/bluez/1094/hci0 has been enabled

gir1.2-gnomebluetooth-1.0:
  Installed: 3.1.4-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 3.1.4-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 3.1.4-0ubuntu1 0

Changed in gnome-bluetooth (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → New
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the fact that the status is not restored is a different issue, not starting the indicator wouldn't solve that, you would have bluetooth enabled still but no indicator for it

Changed in gnome-bluetooth (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

bug #848798 is about the status not being remembered

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Satchit Bhogle (satchitb) wrote :

There are hacks to remove bluetooth utterly. The OP perhaps wants to remove bluetooth on his computer entirely, but the option of turning bluetooth off by default should exist. Bluetooth is something that should not be on except when needed, for safety reasons (though its state on Ubuntu is not visible by default). Also, some users do not use it, or use it rarely, so the process should not eat CPU resources unnecessarily.

tl;dr version: The option to turn bluetooth off by default should exist.

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