which in returns provides no brightness controls in the battery applet. as i indicated in the review 121355, this happens since that commit. Reproducible: Always
It's just that it doesn't show up in plasmaengineexplorer (not initially, you can still manually ask it to get the data). Brightness controls do work in battery just fine here. Is kded and powerdevil running?
off course =)
Cannot confirm. Works for me.
i suspect it is working fine with XRandrBrightness, but not with helper: powerdevil: No outputs have backlight property powerdevil: Using helper
The only thing I could imagine is that the maximum brightness values aren't populated when it uses the helper. However, all the data engine does is query stuff over DBus from PowerDevil. Also, when I manually request the PowerDevil source it shows up in plasmaengineexplorer just fine. It's just that it doesn't monitor that one because it isn't filled initially (since the aforementioned commit it's filled completely async), when I call setData("PowerDevil", "foo") on powermanagementengine startup it shows up initially just fine. Can you check the output of "qdbus org.kde.Solid.PowerManagement /org/kde/Solid/PowerManagement/Actions/BrightnessControl org.kde.Solid.PowerManagement.Actions.BrightnessControl.brightnessValueMax" ?
the output is 9
I can reproduce. the output here is 10.
This stuff changed recently in powerdevil, is this still a problem?
yeah, sorry, forgot to close this one.