On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 19:12, Fabrizio Montesi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 01 December 2008 18:50:18 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >sorry, what does moving the mouse wheel over the battery icon have to do >> > >with the brightness of my screen? >> > >> >at the very least it requires onscreen notification, but it really seems >> > >like an odd feature. >> >> I do agree, and imho it could be changed to do another thing, like changing >> power profiles WITH a on screen notification. this makes much more sense to >> me, what about that? > > IMO changing a power profile is an important thing, which i'd really like to > avoid doing by mistake by rolling my mouse wheel. More importantly, a > "battery" doesn't really ring a bell for "screen brightness" and/or "power > profile". Changing something by moving the mouse wheel over a battery is > something I wouldn't expect.
Hello everyone, Fabrizio is absolutely right. The only sensible thing to happen upon a mouse wheel event on the battery applet would be to magically recharge the battery. ;-) Doesn't the little XO do something like this? Let you mechanically recharge the system by turning a little crank? Just kidding. michael > > What I always thought as "could be pretty" is that moving the wheel over the > brightness bar in the battery plasmoid should change its value. Now, that I > would expect and be pleased by. > > If you want to scroll over anything to change the screen brightness, it should > be a light bulb. Perhaps showing a hover icon when the battery plasmoid is big > enough and then offer the wheel option over there? I wouldn't put much hope in > this option anyway... it could make the interface look heavy. > > Just MHO, of course. > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel > _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
