Bug#467264: g-p-man: 'on battery' config interacts with 'on AC' settings - severity broken

[Eddy Petrișor]

notfound 467264  2.22.0-1
thanks

Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:13:23PM +0200, Eddy Petri??or wrote:
>> Package: gnome-power-manager
>> Version: 2.20.2-3
>> Severity: serious
>> Justification: doesn't do is basic functionality; no way to configure
>>
>> I have observed that on my laptop, after some time of inactivity, and  
>> after manually reducing the brightness to minimum, I see that brightness  
>> is turned to max.

I briefly looked at this and seems to be gone.

>> Also, I have just seen some weird behaviour: while on battery, I was  
>> looking at power preferences for AC and I set it to 100%. To my  
>> surprise, the brightness changed.
>>
>> Even worse, after leaving the brightness slider for AC at 100%, I  
>> switched to the battery tab and slided it from the original 0% to 100%  
>> and, lo and behold, as the slider when towards 100% the brightness went  
>> UP, yes, UP!
>>
>> Playing with the battery slider, after that I have seen that:

 >
 > Does this still happen in the latest version ?
(reordered for convenience)

If by latest you mean 2.22.1-1, I can't say since I run lenny.
If you mean 2.22.0-1, then...

>> While on battery:
>> - moving the AC slider changes brightness

no longer happens

>> - while the AC slider was at 0%, moving the batt slider doesn't do anything
>> - while the AC slider was at 100%, the battery slider worked up-side-down
>> - when the AC slider is at 0%, the battery slider doesn't have any effect
>> - when the battery slider is at 100%, the AC slider has no effect

There isn't anymore a battery slider?!!??!? WTF?
Is this a GNOME usability "improvement"?

OTOH, the dimming option while on battery seems to be useless now (didn't saw any change in my brief 
test).

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Regards,
EddyP
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