Have just finished successfully building and testing the patch in Natty (see description for link to build log). Any update on the FFE? Any more info required?
** Description changed: Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager The version of upower (0.9.8) in Natty now has support for controlling keyboard backlights via dbus, and upstream g-p-m git HEAD (soon to be released 3.0 for GNOME 3) just added support for controlling these, however the version of g-p-m shipped in Natty (2.32) does not have any such support. Keyboard backlight support was previously available via HAL in Hardy but was then removed when the dehalsification started and no such support has been available since, and as such adding support to g-p-m in Natty is (and has been for a while) greatly needed. I have written a patch against g-p-m 2.32 which provides such support and is similar to the support recently added to g-p-m 3.0. This patch adds a new GpmBacklightKbd object to g-p-m (which is based on the existing GpmBacklight object which controls the LCD backlight) to control the UPower KbdBacklight DBus interface and the patch provides support for: * controlling the backlight via the appropriate backlight up / down buttons * automatically dimming the backlight on idle when the lcd is dimmed * automatically shutting of the keyboard backlight when the lcd is shut off * displaying the keyboard brightness level via notify-osd (like we do for lcd backlight level) when changed by the user I have tested this patch significantly myself over numerous days with no issues. After a quick post on the ubuntuforums (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1694678) at least one other user has also confirmed this patch as working well and providing a reasonable improvement over current sub-optimum methods of controlling the keyboard backlight (such as using pommed, which is only available for MacBook machines and does not support other laptops with keyboard backlights such as various Asus models, which the upower + g-p-m method does). I am requesting a FFE to merge the attached patch into g-p-m in Natty to provide such support. - A build log for g-p-m 2.32 in Maverick using the attached patch is - available my ppa (amd64 version - https://launchpad.net/~alexmurray/+archive/ppa/+buildjob/2283751/+files - /buildlog_ubuntu-maverick-amd64.gnome-power- - manager_2.32.0-0ubuntu2_BUILDING.txt.gz). - - I am currently installing a natty daily vm to test building of the Natty - version of g-p-m 2.32 with this patch, but due to the almost identical - nature of g-p-m in Natty and Maverick I do not expect any problems. + A build log for g-p-m 2.32 in Natty using the attached patch is + available my ppa (http://launchpadlibrarian.net/65256989 + /buildlog_ubuntu-natty-i386.gnome-power- + manager_2.32.0-2ubuntu2_BUILDING.txt.gz). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/724324 Title: FFE: Add support to g-p-m for controlling keyboard backlight via upower in natty -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
