Brightness control present for ac and absent for battery

[Lele83x]

Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager

gnome-power-manager 2.28.1-0ubuntu1
Ubuntu 9.10

The default menu of g-p-m is reductive (and that's a designer's choice) to the point that it's dumb (designer's mistake).

The brightness control bar is present for ac condition, I can actually set my pc to NOT have maximum brightness when on ac. USELESS for 99% of population. But not for when the pc is on battery power, that is stuck on 50% reduction unless you tinker with gconf-editor.

This is plain stupid. The control bar should be absent for ac and present for battery, where some people want brightness above 50% or below if their eyes can handle it, for battery power saving issues.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please open a terminal and execute: apport-collect 487708 ? It will attach the necessary information to this report. Also you can submit more information for it by looking to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingGNOMEPowerManager , Thanks in advance.

[Lele83x (lele83x)]

Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gnome-power-manager 2.28.1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-18.55-generic
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-18-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Lele83x (lele83x)]

I did as you kindly asked. My bug report tough was more a design complain as a real bug report. There are no bugs regarding the brightness, just missing features in my opinion. Thanks so much for the help anyway.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. A new version of Gnome Power Manager is available on Maverick and we are wondering if this bug is still an issue for you with that version? Could you please test and comment back? Thanks in advance.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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