When should there be a screen brightness OSD?

[Àlex Fiestas]

On Tuesday 21 January 2014 22:55:14 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 January 2014 22:45:44 Kai Uwe Broulik wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > +1 as well!
> > Especially it popping up on session start where the compositor isn't fully
> > ready. :/
> > 
> > So to summarize:
> > - never ever show it when the brightness changes automatically (session
> > start, mouse movement, screen timeout, ...) - if user changes, it show the
> > OSD on the primary/internal monitor as this is probably the affected one
> > 
> > When dragging the slider in the battery monitor it shouldn't be shown
> > either, the slider (and the dimming screem, of course) provides the
> > feedback already.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Kai Uwe
> 
> +1, that sounds exactly like it should behave!
Funny thing, I fixed this behavior in one previous release and then in the next 
release it regressed, nobody fixed it then.

I can take a look and fix it for 4.11.6, it shouldn't be *that* hard.