UI for display brightness inconsistent

[Jonathan Amir]

Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager

The UI for brightness control (the slider) in inconsistent. In the tab "On AC Power" its label is "Set display brightness to:", and 0% means very dim and 100% means very bright.
The problem is that in the tab "On Battery Power", the numbers are opposite. The label is "Dim display brightness by:", and 0% means very bright and 100% means very dim.

I think this is counter intuitive and should be changed.

[ShamrockUK (uplift)]

Confirming and seconding.

Forums thread here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=581335

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Hardy Heron. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Jonathan Amir (jonathan-amir)]

I can't reproduce it in Hardy Alpha 4 because the ui changed. Under the "On Battery Power" the above mentioned label is gone. There are some other options instead, but I am not sure if they are relevant to this bug or not. They don't seem to correspond to the mentioned label in "On AC Power".

[lenooh (lenooh)]

here's a screen shot from 7.10.

crazy... :-)

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Lethe (nick-ukfsn)]

For me that reported duplicate bug Bug #159336, I have since moved over to using KDE, so this is no longer an issue in my instance.

Nick

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

[lenooh (lenooh)]

yes i guess this bug can be closed, since the UI changed in 8.04 and there does not seem to be an option to set the display brightness (as Jonathan Amir already stated).