Bug 14342 – Auto dim/undim should be smoother

Bug 14342 - Auto dim/undim should be smoother

Summary:

Auto dim/undim should be smoother

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 11851

Product:	SB Radio
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Buttons/Knob
Version:	Include FW version in comment
Platform:	PC Other

Importance:	P2 normal with 1 vote (vote)
Target Milestone:	7.4.x
Assigned To:	Raphael Juchli

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Reported:	2009-09-27 08:09 UTC by Mark Miksis
Modified:	2010-01-01 03:41 UTC (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Description Mark Miksis 2009-09-27 08:09:29 UTC

When the ambient light changes, the display appears to change in fairly course steps.  It would be more attractive if it dimmed and undimmed smoothly.

Comment 1 James Richardson 2009-09-30 13:03:24 UTC

Richard: is this something you would look at?

Comment 2 Felix Mueller 2009-09-30 13:57:35 UTC

I asked Raphael to look at it.

Comment 3 Richard Titmuss 2009-09-30 14:14:40 UTC

Raphel, I wonder if the dimming should be done in the kernel, not the application. We should then be a able to make this very smooth. I'm thinking the kernel interface stays the same, just any changes are done smoothly.

What do you think?

Comment 4 Raphael Juchli 2009-10-01 00:50:42 UTC

Richard:
There is currently a ramping step variable defined in the Lua code. I can try to modify that to a lower level and increase the timer interval. This way the brightness should adjust faster/smoother as well.

But it might make more sense to have the dimming in the kernel code for performance reasons.

Comment 5 Felix Mueller 2010-01-01 03:41:52 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 11851 ***