On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Frank Ch. Eigler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > [...] The XO does not have an ambient light sensor. The backlight > > is not turned off automatically in sunlight. [...] > > Opportunistic use of the on-board camera and the time-of-day clock > could yield such heuristics.
Yes indeed. I brought this up when we were in the keyboard design phase, but it was determined, quite fairly, to be too much effort for the overall gain, given the other components of the system and state of the software (both then, and now, for that matter). It seems that in the future this is a wise place to spend a little extra time, since it could actually have some high energy saving benefits if done well. Naturally, we could provide a way to turn the mode off in the control panel for that that don't want that kind of micromanagement. - Eben _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
