Could someone please explain the meaning/purpose of 'Dim screen to save power'? This bug's reporter says that it doesn't have any effect on screen dimming when on idle and on battery. I can also confirm this behaviour. However, in bug 844241, the screen is dimmed but isn't restored on activity but the dimming doesn't occur if the checkbox isn't checked. That bug is also reported against Oneiric.
Would this mean that there are two bugs on screen dimming: one/this bug about dimming not working at all with misleading description for the checkbox and the second one about broken brightness restoring on activity after idle? Or should the misleading description moved to a new bug? ** Tags added: i386 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/840683 Title: gnome-control-center is missing 'dim screen brightness when idle and on battery' Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: At least this appears to be the case. Perhaps it is just poor wording - in the 'Screen' settings there is a checkbox saying 'Dim screen to save power' that apparently does nothing when ticked. Does it really mean 'Dim screen to save power when the computer is idle and on battery'? ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.1.90-0ubuntu2 Uname: Linux 3.1.0-rc4-git-20110831.1150 x86_64 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Sep 4 07:46:45 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110330) SourcePackage: gnome-control-center UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-02 (1 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/840683/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
