Res: Review Request: This patch add an easy way to up/down brightness only scrolling on battery plasmoid top.

[Michael Rudolph]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 19:12, Fabrizio Montesi <famontesi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday 01 December 2008 18:50:18 dantti85-dev at yahoo.com.br wrote:
>> >sorry, what does moving the mouse wheel over the battery icon have to do
>> > >with the brightness of my screen?
>> >
>> >at the very least it requires onscreen notification, but it really seems
>> > >like an odd feature.
>>
>> I do agree, and imho it could be changed to do another thing, like changing
>> power profiles WITH a on screen notification. this makes much more sense to
>> me, what about that?
>
> IMO changing a power profile is an important thing, which i'd really like to
> avoid doing by mistake by rolling my mouse wheel. More importantly, a
> "battery" doesn't really ring a bell for "screen brightness" and/or "power
> profile". Changing something by moving the mouse wheel over a battery is
> something I wouldn't expect.

Hello everyone,

Fabrizio is absolutely right. The only sensible thing to happen upon a
mouse wheel event on the battery applet would be to magically recharge
the battery. ;-)

Doesn't the little XO do something like this? Let you mechanically
recharge the system by turning a little crank?

Just kidding.

michael

>
> What I always thought as "could be pretty" is that moving the wheel over the
> brightness bar in the battery plasmoid should change its value. Now, that I
> would expect and be pleased by.
>
> If you want to scroll over anything to change the screen brightness, it should
> be a light bulb. Perhaps showing a hover icon when the battery plasmoid is big
> enough and then offer the wheel option over there? I wouldn't put much hope in
> this option anyway... it could make the interface look heavy.
>
> Just MHO, of course.
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