Bug 263754

Summary: Make Bluedevil and its Kio slaves aware of Bluetooth adapter status
Product: [Unmaintained] solid Reporter: Kai Uwe Broulik <KaiUweBroulik2>
Component: bluetoothAssignee: Alex Fiestas <afiestas>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description Kai Uwe Broulik 2011-01-20 15:00:59 UTC 
Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.5.95) 
OS:                Linux

It seems nobody thought of checking if a Bluetooth adapter is available, enabled and/or connected before doing any action.
You can happily search for bluetooth devices but you won‘t find any when the adapter is disabled.
You can happily try to send a file to a known device but it will fail if the adapter is disabled.
Bluetooth kio slave searches forever for a device but it will find none if the adapter is disabled.
This is really inconvenient. It should show an error message that no adapter is enabled or available!
(And make it easier to enable/disable the adapters, there is no “on button” in the context menu.)

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Alex Fiestas 2011-01-20 15:06:32 UTC 
Will be fixed in BlueDevil 1.1

Thanks for reporting.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 245538 ***