Imagine that you are with your laptop/netbook were you have no access to landline and WiFi APs. But you have your mobile with reasonable bandwidth fee. Currently you would have to do this (there are few commands and modifications to files):
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BluetoothDialup
On Windows it is few clicks with Bluetooth managers or PC Suites for mobiles.
PS: I tried to find if Gnome people are planning to put it into their Bluetooth manager but I could not.
Hi there, somethink I can reproach with Ubuntu (if I compare with what I do on Mac OS X), is the way we can manage our time, our contacts, our mails and our meetings.
Today, most of the people have a handy with calendar, notes, to do lists and contact features. Most of these devices use the bluetooth technology or an USB connection with the computer. It would be great if we could synchronize our agenda (meetings, dates, birthdays...), our contacts (phone number, email address, address...), our notes and our to do lists with any mobile phone, smartphone, iPhone or netbook. How many times do we record a date or a precious information on our phone that we need to copy in our agenda or in our contacts list? That very fastidious at this time, because we need to do it manually in both sense.
Ubuntu should have support for auto-login's when certain Bluetooth devices come in range of the computer. It should also enable their own personal "keyring" instead of them having to type a password to get logins from the keyring.
A phone for example -- when I leave my desk, I want my computer to lock itself (when bluetooth is out of range) and then when I come back, I would like it to unlock. It would save time.
It seems silly to have only partial Bluetooth support; sending and pairing devices is currently possible, but receiving files is not without installing the required packages manually.
Written by ezekiel_000 the 14 Nov 08 at 14:21.
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The bluetooth applet needs an additional wizard to set up bluetooth headphones/headsets and an easy way to switch between the two audio options:
1: Standard Output
2: Bluetooth Headphones
This would be great to see in the applets drop down menus as at the moment the tutorials I have seen require you to load kernel modules and then run a couple of commands in the terminal to start the bluetooth sound.
Add/Remove has multiple bluetooth entries that should be displayed to the user as one metapackage containing: kbluetooth, kbtobexclient, Kinputwizzard, kbluemon, Kblueclock, Bluetooth Obex Server