This is one way to prevent counterintuitive things from happening. The alternative would be to have the hardware brightness adjustment controls actually change some GConf key in order to permanently change the default setting. The big problem with that approach is that if you're calculating the brightness with things like
brightness *= scale; where scale < 1, then increasing the default maximum brightness to 1 will fail to increase the current brightness to the maximum (for example when using battery), which would be frustrating for the user. If they keep pressing the brighten key, it should keep getting brighter until it physically can't. ** Attachment added: "Patch to keep track of what direction the brightness is supposed to be changing, and never do anything surprising." http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12662247/never-adjust-brightness-in-the-wrong-direction.patch -- Backlight no longer under my control on battery https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/131885 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
