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Re: Advanced Backlight Statusbar Applet

Great applet! A suggestion or two:

In the Control Panel/Panels/Status Bar tab, the icon is the same as Display (the built-in one). Should be different.

I'm accustomed to disconnecting my BT headset from the sound icon, do you think that's readily possible? I keep the BT icon up anyhow, so I'm going to start retraining myself to disconnect the headset from there.

And this is OT, but I'm trying to eliminate the Presence applet. If I could trash that, I'd have room for the fat clock. Any clue would be appreciated...

Re: Advanced Backlight Statusbar Applet

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Originally Posted by Benson (Post 142018)

In the Control Panel/Panels/Status Bar tab, the icon is the same as Display (the built-in one). Should be different.

I worked up a custom icon, but I think rm_you had some trouble in getting it to load properly. Should probably be put on the To Do list, though.

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Originally Posted by Benson (Post 142018)

I'm accustomed to disconnecting my BT headset from the sound icon, do you think that's readily possible?

A good idea (I had considered this problem myself when the volume slider was added), but without Nokia's source for the volume applet, it may be a little difficult getting this setup.

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Originally Posted by Benson (Post 142018)

And this is OT, but I'm trying to eliminate the Presence applet.

Totally or have it combined with another applet? I'm not sure how feasible either of those options are.

Re: Advanced Backlight Statusbar Applet

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Originally Posted by Benson (Post 142018)

In the Control Panel/Panels/Status Bar tab, the icon is the same as Display (the built-in one). Should be different.

I *have* an icon for the Control Panel bit, I was just thoroughly failing to get it to work correctly (it just didn't want to show up!) so I went ahead and released with the old icon instead of delaying for something trivial. That really should be listed on my TODO list though!

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Originally Posted by Benson (Post 142018)

I'm accustomed to disconnecting my BT headset from the sound icon, do you think that's readily possible? I keep the BT icon up anyhow, so I'm going to start retraining myself to disconnect the headset from there.

I have also considered adding the "Settings..." buttons similar to the ones that are included in the original volume and brightness applets, and I have now properly added that to my TODO.

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Originally Posted by Benson (Post 142018)

And this is OT, but I'm trying to eliminate the Presence applet. If I could trash that, I'd have room for the fat clock. Any clue would be appreciated...

As for the presence applet, you could try deleting this file:

Code:

/usr/share/applications/hildon-status-bar/presence.desktop

Or, at least move it somewhere for safekeeping. That *might* work! :P I haven't tried though...

Edit: GeneralAntilles and I apparently posted in parallel... Hopefully one of our answers is helpful. :)

Re: Advanced Backlight Statusbar Applet

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Originally Posted by rm_you (Post 141968)

Apparently I'm doing platform detection in an odd way, but it seems reasonable to me...
SU-18 = 770
RX-34 = n800
RX-44 = n810
RC-48 = *insert speculation here*
Thoughts?

Well maybe you could check for OS2008 instead? N800 can have both OS2007 and 8 so RX-34 won't tell you which one is installed. Also in that case it doesn't matter if it is 770 or N800.

Check for OS version can be done like
cut -d _ -f 2 /etc/osso_software_version

Re: Advanced Backlight Statusbar Applet

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Originally Posted by rm_you (Post 142039)

As for the presence applet, you could try deleting this file:

Code:

/usr/share/applications/hildon-status-bar/presence.desktop

Or, at least move it somewhere for safekeeping. That *might* work! :P I haven't tried though...

It worketh with a mighty working!

Re: Advanced Backlight Statusbar Applet

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Originally Posted by fanoush (Post 142143)

I do need to know the hardware difference as well so I can disable 0 backlight on n800 and enable light sensor / keyboard light code on n810. Maybe I will end up checking both....

Re: Advanced Backlight Statusbar Applet

Didn't notice this before (don't restart, like, ever :D), but a friend brought it up.

The brightness setting doesn't persist through reboots. I guess write the current level when the applet popup closes and load it up again when the applet's loaded on startup?

Re: Advanced Backlight Statusbar Applet

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Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles (Post 142307)

The brightness setting doesn't persist through reboots. I guess write the current level when the applet popup closes and load it up again when the applet's loaded on startup?

Yeah, I noticed that in the first versions but it seemed to have "magically" fixed itself... Or so I thought. :(

I will revisit this along with configuration file parsing, which should easily allow me to save the current brightness level.

Re: Advanced Backlight Statusbar Applet

Very nice applet.

One observation: all other status bar applets close their popup windows when the stylus is clicked outside of the window. It would be nice if this applet did it as well, for consistency's sake.

Hmm, on further investigation, clicking on the desktop background will not close the pop-up. Clicking anywhere else will.