On 04/23/2010 12:33 PM, Luca Niccoli wrote:
I'd like to propose to drop OSD support for screen brightness.
I agree it's a less-needed feature that, if it causes intractable problems, could be removed.
Squeeze's kernel synthesizes a key event that will make many desktop environments display their own nice OSD;
Many, but not all. We provide OSD for the sake of those who don't have one, something I've always been somewhat uncomfortable with. If there were a good, standalone OSD provided outside of eeepc-acpi-scripts, I'd be happier, as I've never liked ours.
moreover, screen brightness is kind of self-evident, so the OSD it's not strictly necessary;
Agreed.
most importantly, on lenny's kernel it's driven by the generic video/brightness acpi event, so keeping it it's kind of a conflict with acpi-support (I have to experiment about it; I suspect it wouldn't properly crash things, but it would still be a generic functionality implemented in a system-specific package).
Well reasoned. Ben _______________________________________________ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
