'Padlock' symbol in Live DVD Bluetooth Icon?

**Daveski17** · September 28th, 2014

Can anyone tell me what the 'padlock' symbol in this Bluetooth icon screenshot of the live DVD is please?

ubuntu bluetooth icon detail.jpg

**mc4man** · September 29th, 2014

see here
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...h/+bug/1311211

**Daveski17** · September 29th, 2014

Thanks.

**Vladlenin5000** · September 29th, 2014

Honestly, I really can't understand why some people make such fuss - to the point of opening a bug report - over such insignificant details. A non-sequitur, at best, as commented by Matthew Paul Thomas, but it doesn't bothers me.

**Daveski17** · September 29th, 2014

It is an odd choice for an icon symbol representing being paired with another device though. Had me confused anyhow lol.

**Vladlenin5000** · September 29th, 2014

For the older Bluetooth generations it makes some sense. At that time, pairing meant the device was actually locked, or one into another. Current Bluetooth versions can deal with more than one device simultaneously. Even a cheap CSR BT 4.0 dongle can happily work with an AD2P headphone while sending a file to an Android device, connected to a keybord, mouse, etc.

**Daveski17** · September 30th, 2014

That does make sense. I was curious as to what it meant though and wondered if there was some problem. I want to get rid of Windows Vista on my old Belnea laptop and replace it with Ubuntu eventually. I have discovered that the live DVD of 14.04.1 LTS will send files via Bluetooth to my Nexus tablet or my BlackBerry phone but can't receive them. This may or may not be resolved if I choose a permanent install of Ubuntu. Although there are often problems with sending/receiving files from the phone in Windows. The tablet doesn't seem to suffer from this connectivity problem when the laptop is running Windows. I can live without Bluetooth though I suppose. I don't think I can live with bloaty RAM hungry Vista much longer lol.