Re: [Sugar-devel] More details on brightness control in Sugar

2015-05-08 Thread Martin Abente
Hello Sam and James, I have sent a PR for the complete work on brightness controls for Sugar [1]. Please give it a try! Regards, Martin. Refs: 1. https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/pull/504 On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 2:18 PM, Martin Abente < martin.abente.lah...@gmail.com> wrote: > Alright, work

Re: [Sugar-devel] More details on brightness control in Sugar

2015-05-06 Thread Martin Abente
Alright, working on it already ;) Should have something to show today. On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 5:31 AM, Sam P. wrote: > Hi Martin, > > Using the sugar-backlight-helper with a polkit file to change the > brightness file sounds like a very good idea. That would significantly > reduce the complexit

Re: [Sugar-devel] More details on brightness control in Sugar

2015-05-06 Thread Sam P.
Hi Martin, Using the sugar-backlight-helper with a polkit file to change the brightness file sounds like a very good idea. That would significantly reduce the complexity of the change. Please feel free to make the changes and send through a patch. I will try and fix up the iconography issues.

Re: [Sugar-devel] More details on brightness control in Sugar

2015-05-05 Thread James Cameron
Thanks for the research. On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 06:27:59PM -0400, Martin Abente wrote: > [...] > It would not be too difficult to re-implement the same mechanism for > Sugar. In fact I have re-implemented the exact same functionality > provided by "gsd-backlight-helper" in > Python. https://gith

[Sugar-devel] More details on brightness control in Sugar

2015-05-05 Thread Martin Abente
Hello Sam and James, I am moving our discussion from Sam's pull request ( https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/pull/437) to here because this particular post is bit long. Regarding James request: "...instead understand how both gnome-settings-daemon and unity-settings-daemon implement what they do