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Bug 542742 - battery preferences misleading and incomplete
battery preferences misleading and incomplete
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-power-manager
Classification: Deprecated
Component: gnome-power-preferences
2.22.x
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: GNOME Power Manager Maintainer(s)
GNOME Power Manager Maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-07-13 06:51 UTC by Wolfgang Rosenauer
Modified: 2009-03-04 15:05 UTC
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GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.21/2.22



Description Wolfgang Rosenauer 2008-07-13 06:51:05 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:
Comment 1 Richard Hughes 2009-03-04 15:05:00 UTC
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.