#1433 NORM Trial-2: Backlight can't be turned down well enough

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#1433: Backlight can't be turned down well enough
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  Reporter:  gnu               |       Owner:  Eben     
      Type:  defect            |      Status:  new      
  Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  Trial-2  
 Component:  interface-design  |     Version:  Build 385
Resolution:                    |    Keywords:  power    
  Verified:  0                 |  
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Changes (by Eben):

 * cc: jg (added)

Comment:

 In the new keyboard layout, the keys in the right bar should be
 decrease/increase brightness/volume, from left to right.  Having these
 dedicated brightness keys places clearer iconography on the buttons, and
 also completely removes the fidelity problem on the slider key.  The
 adjustment intervals can be easily set to provide enough levels for
 output.

 The slider shouldn't be connected to brightness anymore.  This was
 specifically done in order to free its functionality up for use by
 activities.

 As a side note, we may want to allow auto-repeat for these level
 adjustment keys.  The more levels we add to them, the more annoying it
 will be to get to "mute" from full volume, etc.  Autorepeat buys us a
 quick fix for that.  Additionally, we should make sure that [meta-(volume
 | brightness)(up | down)] has the effect of mute, backlight off, full
 volume, and full brightness.  That's not necessarily discoverable, but
 there's no sense in omitting it.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/1433#comment:7>
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