GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 542742
battery preferences misleading and incomplete
Last modified: 2009-03-04 15:05:00 UTC
The preference page for battery power is misleading for the display settings. "Reduce backlight brightness" "Dim display when idle" For example I don't want to reduce my backlight level when on battery but I want to let the display be dimmed when idle. This settings doesn't work for me (I guess that the latter is dependent on the first?) That's not clear if that's the case. What I really miss in that dialog are the settings for: - the idle time before the display gets dimmed in idle case (there is only the sleep when inactive time) - the level of brightness when "reduce backlight brightness" is active (IIRC that was available in some former version of gpm) Other information:
We're really simplified the interface and made it all relative, not absolute. As such, sliders don't make sense anymore. You can still set some tweak values in gconf if you wish.