Comment # 10 on bug 1004830 from Dominique Leuenberger

(In reply to Sebastian Parschauer from comment #9)
> It also works with blueman for me. A workaround might be installing and
> using that one. It uses the BlueZ API. Especially if you don't run GNOME,
> then this should work fine for you.

> But as all other tools work properly, this is a GNOME bug and should be
> fixed.

huh? GNOME control center is the control center for GNOME.
The desktop file for gnome-control-center contains:

OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity;

Not running inside GNOME, there is really no reason one would believe it would
work without having its infrastructure around