Bug 251183

Summary:	Make brightness adjustable by scrolling over the power-manager's systray icon
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	Michal Zatloukal <myxal.mxl>
Component:	widget-battery	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	KaiUweBroulik2, lamarque
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
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Description Michal Zatloukal 2010-09-14 07:49:02 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.5.1) 
OS:                Linux

For various reasons (external keyboard, kernel acpi bug), a user might be forced to use the desktop environment instead of the keys to adjust the brightness level. This should be very quick and easy to do.

Reproducible: Always


Actual Results:  
Scrolling over the battery meter's tray icon does nothing.

Expected Results:  
Scrolling over the meter should adjust brightness in appropriate steps, in a similar way volume is adjusted now when scrolling over KMix's tray icon.

Comment 1 Kai Uwe Broulik 2010-12-27 01:27:37 UTC

Wasn‘t there a debate about this and plasma developers decided against this so useful idea?
Voted for that. It should work the same way KMix‘ icon adjusts volume. Yes, we have the Fn-keys but why not make a more consistent overall look? Scrolling the volume icon -> Adjust volume, Scrolling the battery -> Adjust power comsumption, i.e. screen brightness. It‘s not too far away from being logical.

Comment 2 Lamarque V. Souza 2011-02-05 00:37:07 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 230888 ***