Have updated bug description with info for the FFE. Will update again soon once I confirm the patch is correct for Natty.
** Description changed: Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager - upower 0.9.8 supports controlling keyboard backlights and exposes an - appropriate dbus interface to control them. + The version of upower (0.9.8) in Natty now has support for controlling + keyboard backlights via dbus, and upstream g-p-m git HEAD (soon to be + released 3.0 for GNOME 3) just added support for controlling these, + however the version of g-p-m shipped in Natty (2.32) does not have any + such support. - g-p-m can simply access this to control keyboard backlights in much the - same way as it does for lcd / display backlights. + Keyboard backlight support was previously available via HAL in Hardy but + was then removed when the dehalsification started and no such support + has been available since, and as such adding support to g-p-m in Natty + is (and has been for a while) greatly needed. - Attached is a patch to implement such support - this is against g-p-m in - maverick but should apply pretty cleanly for natty since we are still - using the same version. + I have written a patch against g-p-m 2.32 which provides such support + and is similar to the support recently added to g-p-m 3.0. + + This patch adds a new GpmBacklightKbd object to g-p-m (which is based on + the existing GpmBacklight object which controls the LCD backlight) to + control the UPower KbdBacklight DBus interface and the patch provides + support for: + + * controlling the backlight via the appropriate backlight up / down buttons + * automatically dimming the backlight on idle when the lcd is dimmed + * automatically shutting of the keyboard backlight when the lcd is shut off + * displaying the keyboard brightness level via notify-osd (like we do for lcd backlight level) when changed by the user + + I have tested this patch significantly myself over numerous days with no + issues. After a quick post on the ubuntuforums + (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1694678) at least one other + user has also confirmed this patch as working well and providing a + reasonable improvement over current sub-optimum methods of controlling + the keyboard backlight (such as using pommed, which is only available + for MacBook machines and does not support other laptops with keyboard + backlights such as various Asus models, which the upower + g-p-m method + does). + + I am requesting a FFE to merge the attached patch into g-p-m in Natty to + provide such support. + + A build log for g-p-m 2.32 in Maverick using the attached patch is + available my ppa (amd64 version + https://launchpad.net/~alexmurray/+archive/ppa/+buildjob/2283751/+files + /buildlog_ubuntu-maverick-amd64.gnome-power- + manager_2.32.0-0ubuntu2_BUILDING.txt.gz). + + I am currently installing a natty daily vm to test building of the Natty + version of g-p-m 2.32 with this patch, but due to the almost identical + nature of g-p-m in Natty and Maverick I do not expect any problems. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/724324 Title: FFE: Add support to g-p-m for controlling keyboard backlight via upower in natty -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
