Bug#570065: gnome-bluetooth: "Turn On Bluetooth" shown even when hardware disabled

[Tomaz Solc]

Package: gnome-bluetooth
Version: 2.28.6-2
Severity: normal


Hi

On a ThinkPad T61 the Bluetooth applet shows the big "Turn On Bluetooth" button even though bluetooth has been disabled with the hardware switch.

Pressing the button of course doesn't do anything.

It's confusing to display a button that doesn't do anything. It would be better to display a text instructing the user to use the hardware switch in this situation.

Regards
Tomaž

Following is the output from bluetooth-applet on the console:

On start up:

** Message: killswitch 0 is 2
** Message: killswitches state 2
** Message: killswitch 0 is 2
** Message: killswitches state 2
** Message: adding killswitch idx 0 state 2
** Message: killswitch 0 is 2
** Message: killswitches state 2

After click on the "Turn On" button:

** Message: RFKILL event: idx 0 type 2 op 2 soft 0 hard 1

** Message: killswitch 0 is 2
** Message: killswitches state 2
** Message: RFKILL event: idx 0 type 2 op 2 soft 0 hard 1

** Message: killswitch 0 is 2
** Message: killswitches state 2

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-bluetooth depends on:
ii  bluez                   4.60-1           Bluetooth tools and daemons
ii  consolekit              0.4.1-3          framework for defining and trackin
ii  gconf2                  2.28.0-1         GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libatk1.0-0             1.28.0-1         The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                   2.10.2-2         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2               1.8.8-2          The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3             1.2.20-2         simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2        0.84-1           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig1          2.8.0-2          generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6            2.3.11-1         FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4             2.28.0-1         GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.22.4-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-bluetooth7     2.28.6-2         GNOME Bluetooth tools - support li
ii  libgtk2.0-0             2.18.6-1         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libnotify1 [libnotify1- 0.4.5-1          sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  libpango1.0-0           1.26.2-1         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libunique-1.0-0         1.1.6-1          Library for writing single instanc
ii  obex-data-server        0.4.5-1          D-Bus service for OBEX client and 
ii  obexd-client            0.14-1           D-Bus OBEX client
ii  udev                    150-2            /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages gnome-bluetooth recommends:
ii  gvfs-backends                 1.4.3-1    userspace virtual filesystem - bac

Versions of packages gnome-bluetooth suggests:
pn  gnome-user-share              <none>     (no description available)
pn  nautilus-sendto               <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information