Introducing multi-threaded sliding widgets. I added this to my own stuff last week and I woke up this (yesterday) morning and decided to add it to your stuff. It's working well. The volume change is smoother than Nokia's (especially when I disconnect the beep). And that's a remaining problem: the volume change beep. As of last week, the hildon volumebar widget wouldn't let me know when it received a button release event (that's when Nokia beeps). Every other widget does. F*cker. Maybe I need an event box; not sure. Anyway, I've enclosed the following 3 files that I changed against 0.11-7: trunk/merge/configure.ac trunk/merge/Makefile.am trunk/merge/advanced-backlight.c I realize the changes are major for someone not on the project (I'm too afraid to make a context diff), but you should look at them. All is not perfect, but I think I did a good job of cleaning up after myself (multiple add/removes from the statusbar). I can post a .deb if you want a demo. "Like butter".