Description of problem: When I use the "Bluetooth manager" applet in F8 to make my laptop visible and initiate pairing from my cell phone, I get the pop-up message from the Bluetooth manager that says: "Pairing request for '<phone>' (<address>)". It is not clear at all that I have to click on the message to get the PIN entry dialog. I have seen some images on the Net of the "Pairing request..." pop-up that includes the text "Click to open the passkey entry dialog". If that text had been present on the Fedora version of the pop-up, my experience would have been much much more pleasant. I wasted nearly half a day trying to figure how to enter the PIN on the Fedora F8 side of the process, and I am totally disgusted with Fedora now. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use Bluethooth manager applet to turn visibility on. 2. Initiate pairing from cell phone. 3. Get "Paring request..." pop-up message in Fedora. 4. Waste hours trying to figure out how to enter PIN. 5. Click on pop-up message by accident and get PIN entry dialog. 6. Scream. Actual results: Frustration Expected results: Painless pairing to phone. Additional info:
"Pairing request for ..." "Click to open confirmation dialog" That's what it says on my machine. See screenshot. Could you take a screenshot of your popup, and attach the output of "rpm -q bluez-gnome" and "rpm -V bluez-gnome"?
Created attachment 274901 [details] Screenshot.png
rpm -q bluez-gnome: bluez-gnome-0.14-8.fc8 rpm -V bluez-gnome: produced no output This is a fresh install of f8 and fully patched.
Created attachment 274911 [details] Screenshot of connection pop-up.
Could you try using a smaller font size and let me know whether you can see everything? If so, I'll move this to the notification-daemon, either the popups would need to grow bigger as the fonts get bigger, or the default theme should allow that.
That works. If I change the application font from the default size of 10 to 9, then "Pairing request..." fits on one line and "Click to open passkey entry dialog" is visible.
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