bert wrote: > On 21.11.2011, at 15:22, Paul Fox wrote: > > > it quickly became clear (to me, at least) that it would be confusing > > if user-dimming behaved differently than auto-backlight-control, with > > respect to monochrome mode. whether or not it's confusing to the > > user, it's definitely confusing to the code, since it's difficult to > > always do the right thing if the user and the sensor are both changing > > the brightness at the same time. so i disabled the switch to > > monochrome entirely -- using the brightness keys doesn't change the > > color/mono setting. > > IMHO (and not having tried it yet) the current behavior (switching > to mono when manually reducing brightness) is fine, and the best > compromise we found so far.
have we actually tried anything else? the coupling of monochrome to brightness has been this way forever, as far as i know. honestly, i'm surprised people consider this coupling to be so important. given how subtle the difference between color and mono modes with the backlight off, i really doubt most users would even notice the change. > When you add the auto-turnoff, it should only toggle the backlight, > not the mono-color setting. I don't think that would be too > confusing, from a user's POV it just means when it's bright > outside, the backlight's power gets cut. > > I can see how it would lead to confusion if you map this desired > behavior onto the existing olpc-brightness command. What's needed > I think is an additional "override" independent of the brightness > setting that just turns the backlight off. Everything else would > stay the same. it's not that easy. unless neither brightness mechanism messes with the mono setting, then they need to be coupled somehow. otherwise if the backlight is auto-offed (still color), then the user uses the "dim" key (no brightness change, but now mono), and then the backlight auto-ons, it will now be in mono. there's perhaps a way around that, but you can see that it gets tricky to cover all cases. do you also object to the new color/mono toggle, via the control key (or via the UI)? please try os12, when available, and see how it feels. paul > > - Bert - > =--------------------- paul fox, p...@laptop.org _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel