The idea is supposed to be that you have the applet running though in the event that you actually do hook up say a USB bluetooth dongle. You can't exactly spawn a userspace applet with HAL, can you?
** Changed in: gnome-bluetooth (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- Don't run bluetooth applet when no bluetooth hardware is present https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/272150 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs