Re: anyone interested in tpb? (was Re: No more MAKEDEV?)

[Bastien Nocera <bnocera redhat com>]

On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 12:45 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:15:05 -0700
> Bastien Nocera <bnocera redhat com> wrote:
> 
> > > I just noticed, that tpb also provides a nice OSD, e.g. for the
> > > volume.
> > 
> > And GNOME has a nicer one if you use compositing.
> > 
> > And if your desktop doesn't have a nice OSD for multimedia keys, file
> > a bug against it instead of using an obsolete daemon.
> > 
> 
> as a sidenote: do you know which part of gnome does the brightness OSD?
> because that part really needs to talk to gnome-power-manager!

Funnily enough, it's gnome-power-manager :)

> (right now you have the behavior where if I as user crank the
> brightness up, say because of bad light, it works for like 20 seconds
> and then g-p-m comes in and things I want to dimm my screen again to
> the battery level. Same for the other direction)

You might want to file a bug with debug output, see:
http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnome-power-manager/bugs.html

Cheers