Bug 692088

Summary:	Regression: can't change bluetooth computer name
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Oded Arbel <oded>
Component:	gnome-bluetooth	Assignee:	Bastien Nocera <bnocera>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Oded Arbel 2011-03-30 11:56:25 UTC

Description of problem:
The default bluetooth computer name for gnome-bluetooth is the fully qualified host name of the computer with an added "-0" (probably the sequential number of the bluetooth adapter). This is rather ungainly and when binding to a device that records and shows the hostname - such as a PDA or adavanced bluetooth audio devices - looks ugly and is often too long to be useful.

In Fedora 14 you could easily change the bluetooth name to something useful, but with the new (over simplified and KDE-4-like) system setting this is no longer an option.

It might have been less of a problem if the default name was something more sensible.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.91.92-1.fc15.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open system settings
2. Choose "bluetooth"
3. The bluetooth name is show in the top right corner, try to change it.
  
Actual results:
No UI is available for changing the bluetooth name

Expected results:
There should be some UI to change the bluetooth name as it is very unlikely that a user will be happy with the default.

Additional info:
I haven't tested that but it looks like that a computer that is connected directly to an external broadband and with "set hostname from DHCP", the default bluetooth name might be something like "cable-12.45.36.pop.someprovider.com" which is even more terrible.

Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2011-03-31 12:33:58 UTC

I won't be adding this back to the Bluetooth panel. There's plans to use an extended hostname framework which would allow setting a useful name for the machine for Bluetooth, service names, mDNS, etc.