touching the display brightness
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-power |
Confirmed
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Unknown
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gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) |
New
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The gnome-power-manager should have something like a check-box to disable the ``Set display brightness to'' slider and it should be disabled by default, i.e. g-p-m should not touch the display brichtness by default. And it definitely should not set it to 100% by default! (That probably is unhealthy for your eyes for nearly all of today's notebooks, at least if you're not working in a very lightish environment, and it's a waste of energy.)
It's very annoying if g-p-m modifies the display brightness every now and then, especially if you use your notebook (IBM/Lenovo T42 for me) during the day and during the night, and thusly there is no display brightness setting that fits both cases. I nearly always have to adjust the display brightness after g-p-m touched it, as there is no common denominator: having it at 100% during the night is nearly enough to enlighten the whole room, 50% is fine there, however 50% is not enough during the day.
That's why I propose for g-p-m not to touch that setting by default.
This applies to both of the ``Running on AC'' and ``Running on Battery'' cases.
I'm using the current Ubuntu Dapper, gnome-power-
Changed in gnome-power: | |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
This is related: #34897