I'm pretty sure the brightness applet is never on by default. I can certainly see the utility in having it - most laptops may have hardware keys for the brightness, but it seems possible that the control could also apply to desktops with LCDs, which will only have annoying menus on the monitor. Either way, I suggest that making the brightness slider part of the default session should be filed as a different bug and maybe raised on the ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list.
-- [hardy] Battery brightness slider gone https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/201762 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
