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

[Eddy Petrișor]

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.

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:

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


--- System information. ---
Architecture: amd64
Kernel:       Linux 2.6.24.2-bounty

Debian Release: lenny/sid
   900 testing         security.debian.org
   900 testing         ftp.ro.debian.org
    10 unstable        ftp.ro.debian.org

--- Package information. ---
Depends                           (Version) | Installed
===========================================-+-===============
gconf2                        (>= 2.10.1-2) | 2.20.1-2+b1
hal                           (>= 0.5.10-1) | 0.5.10-5
libart-2.0-2                    (>= 2.3.18) | 2.3.20-1
libatk1.0-0                     (>= 1.20.0) | 1.20.0-1
libbonobo2-0                    (>= 2.15.0) | 2.21.90-1
libbonoboui2-0                  (>= 2.15.1) | 2.21.90-1
libc6                            (>= 2.7-1) | 2.7-6
libcairo2                        (>= 1.4.0) | 1.4.14-1
libdbus-1-3                      (>= 1.1.1) | 1.1.2-1
libdbus-glib-1-2                  (>= 0.74) | 0.74-1
libfontconfig1                   (>= 2.4.0) | 2.5.0-2
libfreetype6                     (>= 2.3.5) | 2.3.5-1+b1
libgconf2-4                     (>= 2.13.5) | 2.20.1-2+b1
libglade2-0                    (>= 1:2.6.1) | 1:2.6.2-1
libglib2.0-0                    (>= 2.14.0) | 2.14.5-2
libgnome-keyring0               (>= 2.20.1) | 2.20.3-1
libgnome2-0                     (>= 2.17.3) | 2.20.1.1-1
libgnomecanvas2-0               (>= 2.11.1) | 2.20.1.1-1
libgnomeui-0                    (>= 2.17.1) | 2.20.1.1-1
libgnomevfs2-0               (>= 1:2.17.90) | 1:2.20.1-1
libgstreamer0.10-0             (>= 0.10.15) | 0.10.17-1
libgtk2.0-0                     (>= 2.12.0) | 2.12.1-1
libhal1                         (>= 0.5.10) | 0.5.10-5
libice6                        (>= 1:1.0.0) | 2:1.0.4-1
libnotify1                       (>= 0.4.4) | 0.4.4-3
libnotify1-gtk2.10                          |
liborbit2                    (>= 1:2.14.10) | 1:2.14.10-0.1
libpanel-applet2-0              (>= 2.19.3) | 2.20.3-1
libpango1.0-0                   (>= 1.18.4) | 1.18.4-1
libpng12-0                    (>= 1.2.13-4) | 1.2.15~beta5-3
libpopt0                          (>= 1.10) | 1.10-3
libsm6                                      | 2:1.0.3-1+b1
libstartup-notification0         (>= 0.8-1) | 0.9-1
libwnck22                       (>= 2.19.5) | 2.20.3-1
libx11-6                                    | 2:1.0.3-7
libxcursor1                      (>> 1.1.2) | 1:1.1.9-1
libxext6                                    | 1:1.0.3-2
libxfixes3                     (>= 1:4.0.1) | 1:4.0.3-2
libxi6                                      | 2:1.1.3-1
libxinerama1                                | 1:1.0.2-1
libxml2                                     | 2.6.31.dfsg-1
libxrandr2                     (>= 2:1.2.0) | 2:1.2.2-1
libxrender1                                 | 1:0.9.4-1
notification-daemon                         | 0.3.7-1+b1
zlib1g                                      | 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-11


-- 
Regards,
EddyP
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