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

[Eddy Petrișor]

found 467264 2.22.1-1
thanks

2008/3/31 Eddy Petrișor <eddy.petrisor at gmail.com>:
> 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.

I just installed Debian Lenny on an Asus X51RL-AP196L and saw that on
battery, the (only) brightness slider from the AC tab modifies the
brightness.


>>> 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.

This is again visible on this  Asus laptop (not the same as the
initial laptop for which I reported). Still, the slider now works in
the right direction.

>>> 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

Now it does.

>>> - 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"?

This is still broken.

-- 
Regards,
EddyP
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