Just to reinforce a few points which maybe might not be clear to people who haven't played with the new hardware:
1) the switch point is set that *you cannot tell when we turn the backlight off*. Ie, the threshold is so high that by the time we turn it off, you couldn't never have told whether the backlight was on or not. This is very different from the "auto dim" feature in Macs, for example. (And it's the primary reason why the switch to monochrome was so visible -- you couldn't tell that we were turning the backlight on and off, you could only tell that the images on the display were shifting greyscale values intermittently for no obvious reason.) 2) this is a very important power-saving feature for young kids, who generally aren't savvy enough to manually do all these measures which prolong battery life. So, even if "power tweakers" might want a little more control, it's important to make the default behavior as power-friendly as possible (especially as we move further into deployments where access to power is a big big deal). We should keep in mind the trade-offs here. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net ) _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel