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Bug 1861

Summary: klcddimmer applet does not work and other issues
Product: TDE Reporter: Darrell <darrella>
Component: non-core programsAssignee: Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: normal CC: albator78, bugwatch, jpisini
Priority: P5    
Version: R14.0.x [Trinity]   
Hardware: Other   
OS: Linux   
Compiler Version: TDE Version String:
Application Version: Application Name:
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 2969    

Description Darrell 2014-01-23 17:04:21 CST 
When starting klcddimmer I am presented with a dialog:

Could not start the brightness adjustment command.
[Quit]

Apparently klcddimmer is a wrapper, with the default being set to smartdimmer.

The smartdimmer code is old and unlikely to be available with many distros:

http://www.acc.umu.se/~erikw/program/

I have a Thinkpad T400. Adjusting the brightness manually is straightforward with Fn-Home/End, which is less work than using an applet, but having this applet work automatically for Trinity users should be straightforward.

The help button in the preferences dialog opens the kicker handbook despite an lcddimmer handbook being installed.

The kclddimmer handbook is a joke --- literally. The entire handbook is written as a joke. "Lets you do absolutely nothing.... It slices, it dices...."

Select Help from the applet context menu results in a useless dialog:

This is a help box
[OK]

The klcddimmer preferences dialog is non-modal. The user cannot do anything else on the desktop while the dialog is open.

When the preferences dialog is open, the panel icon indicates the Configure Panel dialog is open rather than the klcddimmer dialog, which probably explains why the kicker handbook opens when selecting the Help button.

This applet was written many years ago and needs attention to get the code up to current standards.
Comment 1 Francois Andriot 2014-01-25 04:12:58 CST 
It looks like "smartdimmer" is really old.
Maybe we can try to use the "xbacklight" utility, which looks like having more or less the same syntax ...
Comment 2 John Pisini 2014-04-02 09:26:43 CDT 
Not working for me either "The KLCDDimmer applet could not be loaded. Please check your installation."