GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 644168
Add brightness control to system icons
Last modified: 2013-08-16 11:55:42 UTC
Separate, and with an interface similar to the volume icon. This should only be shown on devices that do not have hardware brightness buttons (either directly, or through attached keyboards for example).
We're past UI freeze now, it can't be added to mainline shell. On the other hand, it could be done as an extension, which would also be better for people that do have backlight buttons (or ambient light sensor) and don't want additional clutter in the panel. I'll see if I come up with something.
(In reply to comment #1) > We're past UI freeze now, it can't be added to mainline shell. > On the other hand, it could be done as an extension, which would also be better > for people that do have backlight buttons (or ambient light sensor) and don't > want additional clutter in the panel. > I'll see if I come up with something. I'd really rather it was made for GNOME 3.2, integrated by default, and enabled only on those machines that need it (either through a whitelist in udev, or detected somehow).
putting on 3.2 target for now
obviously didn't happen for 3.2 :-(
And didn’t for 3.4 :’( There is actually this extension: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/231/brightness-control/ that tries to implement the function.
This has been added to the new system menu.