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Roadmap to 1.5

  • Do code cleanup until motivation runs dry (DPMS/blanking/xfconf)
  • sync the blanking or DPMS values between xfpm and X11
    • if the user sets the blank time e.g. in another application or a terminal (“xset s 10”), xfpm's UI wouldn't reflect this change of settings at all, but the screen would still blank after 10 seconds. however, this is more the exception than the rule, checking this once at dialog startup should be fine.
  • “Handle display power management” option also disables DPMS.
    • option a) We change the wording of the label to something like “Enable display power management”
      • open question: is setting all DPMS timeouts to 0 equal to disabling DPMS? if so, the option is (a bit) superfluous
    • option b) We make it do what it says, i.e. just leave the DPMS values alone if 0
      • open question: when does this option actually make sense? is it specifically there for xscreensaver? if so, we should probably leave the blank settings alone too in that case.
  • Update website docs

Backlight tab (not completely realized, dialog has been redesigned in a different way)

  • Add checkbox to enable handling of brightness management ( = override kernel)
    • we can check and set /sys/module/video/parameters/brightness_switch_enabled
    • because sometimes xfce4-power-manager might handle backlight better than the kernel driver (finer steps etc.)
  • hide/show tab when on desktop/laptop
  • Move brightness-settings from display tab
  • Add option to deactivate brightness notifications

1.6 (or later)