It’s a while i switched to kde 4 and one of the most annonying things there is the network manager and bluetooth support. Even if the system supports them very good, the gui is not at the same level. In this small article i’ll explain how to change kdebluetooth with blueman and knetworkmanager with the gnome version (which is much more complete and reliable).

First of all let’s remove all the k-crap:

sudo apt-get remove kdebluetooth]

sudo apt-get remove plasma-widget-networkmanagement

Then it’s time to install blueman and the gnome network applet

sudo apt-get install blueman network-manager-gnome

To autoload blueman at login, just open a terminal and type:

blueman &

To automatically load the gnome network applet just change the content of /etc/xdg/autostart/nm-applet.desktop like the following:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Network Manager
Comment=Control your network connections
Icon=nm-device-wireless
Exec=nm-applet --sm-disable
Terminal=false
Type=Application
OnlyShowIn=KDE;
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Bugzilla=GNOME
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Product=NetworkManager
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Component=general
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=nm-applet

And then reboot! it should work