gnome-power preferences slider values do not agree with gconf settings for gnome-power-manager

[Daniel Hook]

Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager

Found using
Ubuntu 8.04
gnome-power-manager 2.22.1-1ubuntu4.

The values set for the time to sleep (the computer or the display) using the sliders in the gnome-power-preferences dialog do not agree with the values that can be found in gconf under apps > gnome-power-manager > timeout.

For instance, I set the slider for the delay to sleep the computer (when on battery power) to 30 minutes using the gnome-power-preferences slider. Then, when I looked at the value using gconf, it said 1200 seconds (20 minutes). I changed the value to 15 minutes in the preferences dialog and then gconf said 300 seconds (10 minutes).

Also, while fixing this request, the sliders should be adjusted so that the values can go below 11 minutes. I would like to be able to set my display sleep timeout as low as 30s without have to use gconf.

[Daniel Hook (dan-hook)]

Update: The gconf values are not correct. My current display timeout says 60 seconds in gconf, but my display does NOT go to sleep after 60 seconds. This should be corrected because I would like a way to set the time to 60 seconds, but the neither the sliders nor gconf will let me do this.

[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 - Intrepid Ibex. 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.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

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!.