I would like to respectfully disagree with this being "invalid / file a wishlist" for the following reasons: * The feature was available in 7.10 along with the confusing and unpredictable way it worked, but it was usable and better than nothing. As an end-user upgrading I would be very disappointed if I lost this functionality in an upgrade. As far as is possible I don't think upgrades should burn people or this will foster the kind of inertia widspread in the Windows world. * I find the ability to adjust laptop brightness essential (see Alex's use case above, and add battery life). * 6.1 Screen Dim Brightness in help has been revised to remove the (I expect planned but couldn't make it into Hardy) task bar slider, but the existing text is entirely inadequate. There should at least be pointers to how to find the laptop specific (in my case sudo /etc/acpi/sonybright.sh) scripts so that advanced users can control brightness from terminal.
To summarize this should be left as an open bug against Hardy and fixed ASAP. If a "correct" fix is too hard to provide in the next couple of months the old behavior should be reverted as an interim fix. -- [hardy] Battery brightness slider gone https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/201762 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
