[Sugar-devel] automatic backlight control
Paul Fox
pgf at laptop.org
Thu Nov 24 14:21:49 EST 2011
bert wrote:
>
> On 24.11.2011, at 17:23, Paul Fox wrote:
>
> > bert wrote:
> >>
> >> So I would rather not add that extra step "below 0".
> >
> > okay, i'm fine with that -- i was on the fence. but i think you and
> > gary are saying two slightly different things.
> >
> > you're saying that the manual keypresses shouldn't have an intermediate
> > "level 0 in color" step. gary's saying that auto-turnoff should go
> > to level 0 in mono. i'm happy to agree with you. i don't think i'm
> > ready to agree with gary.
> >
> > reason for not agreeing with gary: the switch from color to mono and
> > back is very noticeable when you're in bright sunlight. the
> > auto-turnoff should be designed to be as transparent to the user as
> > possible. there will be times when the auto-turnoff won't do quite
> > the right thing -- perhaps your hands are shading the sensor
> > momentarily, or perhaps your laptop was sleeping when you came
> > outside, and the auto-turnoff won't take effect until your first
> > keystroke wakes it up. in those cases i think the auto-turnoff should
> > stay in color mode.
> >
> > paul
>
>
> I agree with you, but I thought Gary was referring to the brightness keys, too.
> I interpreted his message as "automatically switch to mono when the user sets
> brightness to 0", which is not what is in os12 right now, but will be
> reinstated as per this discussion.
>
re-reading for Nth time, i see i might have misunderstood -- sorry gary!
sounds like we're all agreed.
thanks!
paul
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