Auto backlight management?

[Martin Dengler]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:07:12AM -0400, Eben Eliason wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 10:43 PM, John Watlington <wad at laptop.org> wrote:
> >
> >  Bert misread the spec.  When the backlight is switched off, the screen
> >  automatically switches to B&W mode.   Why would you want to take
> >  that out of the control of the user ?
> 
> It's clear to me that it would be quite useful to have a
> bright backlight AND black & white mode for reading a book at night,
> for instance, and this isn't possible in the current UI.

The camera could be checked once when the device went into/out of ebook mode
and the backlight changed appropriately.

> - Eben

Martin
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