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Just a heads up for everybody, Advanced Backlight has been updated to 0.10. Which brings with it some fairly large changes. Including a proper container, which means it'll behave like the Nokia applets now.

Major thanks to jott for figuring out the correct container, adding rotation support, switching to the dsme syscalls and generally being really super-badass awesome.

More information on the website, should have just posted to Extras.

Oh, man! Big and awesome and gorgeous all rolled into one!

I like it much.

Just updated. Thank you!!!

Thought I'd save myself a reboot and just disable / enable the Panel. Bad idea! I ended up killing all my desktop applets No biggie, all regular applications kept running, so I just closed these and performed a clean restart.

OK...

Rotation support is kind of wierd right now; with those icons, I'd interpret the one with the upright A as indicating "no change" rather than "rotate to normal"; as it is, starting with anything but normal rotation, one must do mental coordinate transformations, which are an unpleasant distraction.

Not sure it constitutes a bug, but it's not the behavior I expect from those icons, nor the behavior I find most useful in general.

I'm glad for the break through, but isn't more accurate to say that jott (or someone) saw my window hint suggestion and ran with it? I've seen the CVS updates.

I have a long, twisting development story that ends with the simplicity of hildon-banner.c and this thread. Please accept my humble apologies if I got something wrong.

As far as I'm aware, no. Your hint and his work weren't related (he's been working on this for a while, I believe), we don't even use the window hint you recommended, so I'm not really sure how it could be the same. He doesn't browse itT, anyway.

Really, though, I don't know. You're welcome to ask him directly if you'd like.

Yeah, Benson, I agree. I'm typically the usability tester on these things, so you can lay the blame squarely on my shoulders. One of the internal revisions actually didn't have a "normal" button, and I got myself stuck trying to get it back to normal for a little while. It was probably one of the most frustrating things I've ever experienced. I wanted to go curl up in the corner afterwards, and didn't really have the mental energy into to looking at the fix after rm_you committed it.

The plan was to have the icons be relative to the the current orientation, which they are for the normal orientation, but they don't change for the other directions. Definitely a bug (or, more accurately, an incomplete implementation). I'll poke at it a bit and get jott to look at it in the morning. There've been a couple other bugs fixed in svn already, so we may push another update tomorrow, I guess.

thanks for the tip... nice improvement - particularly with the rotation thingie...

but how come the update notifier on Diablo didnt notify of this (and other updates) even though I was connected for a long time ?

or is the update notifier only applicable for apps on the diablo maemo extra repos ?

Probably because you didn't hit the update period yet? It only updates once a day.

Update notifier is for anything installed from a repository.

For some reason I can only get a screen brightness with this tool equal to about Nokia's backlight setting of level 3. Also I have no rotation options....using N800 Diablo

Sure about this? I'm not really sure how that could be the case.

Do you have rotation support installed? . . .