Christopher Schramm

Thanks for the report. The problem seems to be that blueman-applet tells blueman-tray to use the AppIndicator library even though that's generally only possible if it's able to load it...

@nexhub: What is blueman-git 2.2.4-2~ubuntu20.04? You might be using https://launchpad.net/~pipewire-debian/+archive/ubuntu/testing. It's a third-party repository that says `Do not use this repo` and its `2.2.4-2`s contain a broken patch on top...

Yes, that package is broken, as described above. You can find a "vanilla" APT repository for the main branch at https://blueman.cschramm.eu/debian/ (feel free to report issues here).

Debian migrated to Ayatana so the Debian package has a patch for the imports: https://salsa.debian.org/cschramm/blueman/-/blob/5a4c7343ce09633c0f332d3c6d2e8931a55dd6b2/debian/patches/ayatana.patch (just like basically all Debian packages that depend on libappindicator) Ubuntu just uses the Debian...

> I was initially taken the project from ubuntu source. Not sure how you mean that. The changelog looks like it would be based on 2.1.4-1. However, the ayatana patch...

Oh, I totally forgot about that. :sweat_smile: #1382 dropped the dependency on any shady appindicator lib in favor of a direct StatusNotifierItem implementation, so that there's nothing left to patch....

Oh, I see, I expected it to track `main`. Then https://blueman.cschramm.eu/debian/ is something different of course (it does track `main`).

Two questions come to my mind: - Is that data actually that useful? - How do we handle multiple connections? Link quality is gone, see #1841. At least for BLE...

> Absolute most users normally have a single device connected. In fact multiple connections if I'm not mistaken are allowed only with BT 5.2 and not that many PC/laptop BT...

As you found in the other thread, the blueman-applet process is vital. What is not and actually displays the icon is the blueman-tray process. It gets auto-started by the StatusIcon...