[power indicator] When auto brightness enabled, the brightness slider is ignored

Bug #1408745 reported by Gerry Boland
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ubuntu UX
Triaged
Medium
Paty Davila
unity8 (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Steps to repro:
1. Open Power indicator
2. Disable auto brightness. Move the slider to change screen brightness - all ok
3. Enable auto brightness. Try moving slider

Expected result
brightness still adjusted, but tempered based on the auto's decisions

Actual result
brightness unchanged

Device: krillin

See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BrightnessAndDisplays#Phone for the design guidance of this

Revision history for this message
kevin gunn (kgunn72) wrote :

i dunno, i'm not convinced this is a bug. the selection is "adjust brightness automatically" - which i would think means, i'm giving up control to the machine.
For instance, is i have "auto" turned off....and i turn the slider down to "lowest", and then check "auto" on, and it chooses "maximum"....if i slide up it can't change...i mean, it ends up throwing the whole scale off.
I could buy that you might want to "grey out" or fix the slider if you have the "auto brightness" selected to on.
agree/disagree? maybe we should assign to design.

Michał Sawicz (saviq)
description: updated
Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in ubuntu-ux:
assignee: nobody → Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
John Lea (johnlea)
Changed in ubuntu-ux:
assignee: Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) → Paty Davila (dizzypaty)
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