dim the display on the very start of a long action and undim it on user input or the end of the action
 

http://maemo.org/community/brainstor...of_the_action/

I often find myself locking the screen while a web page is loading just to save a little bit of battery power. So I thought of minimizing screen brightness when there's nothing really important on the display right on the start of every action that's supposedly will take at least several seconds and returning to a previous brightness on any user input or at the end of the action.

Re: dim the display on the very start of a long action and undim it on user input or the end of the action
 

Good idea, but there are some challenges. multitasking is one of them - what if user change views to something else, and multi-step process in the background keep dimming screen?

Sure, nothing that couldn't be overcome, but bullet-proof logic should be established, to avoid irritating behavior.

/Estel

Re: dim the display on the very start of a long action and undim it on user input or the end of the action
 

How about if the displaybrightness got dimmed down above a certain cpu usage?

Re: dim the display on the very start of a long action and undim it on user input or the end of the action
 

sure, we need dimming while playing performance-demanding game ;)

Re: dim the display on the very start of a long action and undim it on user input or the end of the action
 

You shouldnt play those games anyway ;)