[sailfish-utilities] Add a Restart Bluetooth button. JB#58019

[nephros]

This adds a new option in the Utilities Menu to restart the Bluetooth related services, dealing with this feature request

Please review and comment:

• Are the calls to systemctl in restart_bluetooth.sh correct?
• There are two translation strings, one for the name "Bluetooth" and the description of the option itself.

Resolves: #61

[pvuorela]

Hm, I'd be a little cautious on adding new options to the utilities. As was coming up in the forum discussion, ideally we'd fix the underlying bugs so the utilities wouldn't be needed. Maybe even some day getting rid of the whole thing. Then again if there are adaptation side bugs related it could warrant for adding this.

@jusa what's your view?

[Thaodan]

I'm not Jusa but some options help when the underlying vendor-software/hardware is buggy.

[nephros]

As was coming up in the forum discussion, ideally we'd fix the underlying bugs so the utilities wouldn't be needed. Maybe even some day getting rid of the whole thing.

Agreed that ideally this whole package needn't exist at all.

While it does though, and while users are still reporting problems about two releases later, and are reporting that something like this thing here helps in practice, is there any interest in this PR?

[llewelld]

I tested the changes out and they worked nicely. I've made a few minor suggestions.

From reading the forums, I'm not sure whether this is still an issue for users. If it is, then I think we should consider accepting this PR. @nephors, are you still seeing reports of bluetooth problems that restarting the Bluetooth stack seems to fix?

Is this still a work-in-progress?

[nephros]

I tested the changes out and they worked nicely. I've made a few minor suggestions.

From reading the forums, I'm not sure whether this is still an issue for users. If it is, then I think we should consider accepting this PR. @nephors, are you still seeing reports of bluetooth problems that restarting the Bluetooth stack seems to fix?

I have not seen any reports of it in recent times.
But I have published a packaged version of these changes on OBS, and a patch which also allows BT restart (lumped together with the existing Restart Networking feature). That one has 317 downloads.
So it's possible people are just working around any problems by using those.

Myself I use and need this from time to time on SFOS4.2/Xperia10-one as BT devices sometimes just won't connect.

Is this still a work-in-progress?

It is in the sense I am ready to make any changes required.

However I do not have a great amount of devices and SFOS Versions to test on, and there are differences in the actions required to make the restart work depending on at least OS version, maybe even device.

[nephros]

Once I have guidance on the two points:

• order of features in the UI
• convention on how to name the translation IDs

I can rebase, squash and update this branch.

[llewelld]

Concerning the ordering, I personally would prefer to see items added at the end, to avoid messing with users' muscle memory.

The alphabetic ordering and categorisation is a bit nebulous anyway, since in the UI they're translated differently (e.g. "Network Restart", "Home screen Restart" aren't alphabetical).

I could see an argument for keeping the Restart and Clear items together. In that case, please rebase onto the latest changes and fix the ordering of the Fingerprint Restart button too.

[llewelld]

Many thanks for a nice addition @nephros, and for making the changes. This looks good to me now.