Bluetooth device display

[Bill Davidsen]

I'm trying to interest some Windows folks in Linux, and either there are 
no decent tools for Linux, or they are called something which keeps 
search engines from finding them. I loaded a bunch of "bluez-" stuff, 
but found nothing I would show to a user.

They booted a Windows machine, and it popped up a window called 
"bluetooth network," which showed a mouse, a keyboard, a printer, and 
two cell phones. And the user clicked the mouse and keyboard, clicked 
"use it" from the pull down menu, and had changes to bluetooth from wired.

Two questions: first, is there anything like that in Linux, and what's 
it called? These people are NOT going to be told there's a command line 
interface if I can help it. And second, if the user had clicked "use it" 
on a cell phone, what does that mean? Can I send text messages directly 
to Bill Gates? Corporate hq in Redmond? God?

I didn't offer to demonstrate bluetooth tools, happily they didn't ask.

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
   "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
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