Brightness Slider in Tray
Reported by
danielhe...@gmail.com,
Apr 5 2016
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Issue descriptionUserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 7834.66.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.111 Safari/537.36 Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Open the status tray 2. Move the brightness slider What is the expected behavior? The brightness slider can be accessed in the tray. What went wrong? The brightness slider can only be accessed using the brightness keys. Did this work before? No Chrome version: 49.0.2623.111 Channel: stable OS Version: 7834.66.0 Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 21.0 r0 This is particularly useful if a brightness key breaks, and to check the current brightness without changing it. https://productforums.google.com/d/topic/chromebook-central/9oMWpP55LOE/discussion #CBC-RS/TC-watchlist
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Apr 6 2016
This UI inconsistency is a real issue. There is a sound slider, but not a brightness slider. This inconsistency initiates repeated user questions in CBC.
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Apr 25 2016
This feature is removed https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=138177
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Apr 25 2016
Could it at least be made an opt in setting?
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Apr 28 2016
[Triage] Tom, can you help find an owner for this?
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Apr 29 2016
In normal mode, there are always physical keys on the keyboard and you can see the brightness level by looking at the display; TouchView provides a UI to control brightness when the keyboard is removed. Unless it's more common for the brightness key to break than others across Chromebooks, I don't think we should try to solve rare hardware issues through the UI.
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Apr 29 2016
Hi tbuck,just to clarify; I don't think anyone is saying this is supposed to fix a hardware edge case. CBC sees a lot of user confusion about this. They ask how to change the brightness, and report that they've searched through the settings but can't find a way to do it. So the buttons, while functional, are just non-obvious to many users. It seems strange to argue this shouldn't be implemented because that would create UI controls duplicating a hardware button action when literally every button in the top row already has a UI duplication except screen brightness and 'escape'. If this weren't the case, users would probably have been forced to aquatint themselves with the functions of all the buttons, but since they can do everything else in UI, they never bother. Then when they want to change screen brightness, they get stuck.
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May 6 2016
Re-opening. We are considering adding the brightness row but have other improvements to make to the Status Tray before we increase its height further. It can already be cut off on some devices.
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May 15 2016
settings > device > keyboard settings > treat top-row keys as function keys = no brightness controls For your consideration this comment on a CBC thread. https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/chromebook-central/KxYFFlwoLqo/_BNunT7FCgAJ
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Jul 21 2016
Seems like something to consider for upcoming status tray ideas
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Jul 28 2016
The current plan is to show the brightness slider by default in the material design rework of the system menu. |
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Comment 1 by willg...@gmail.com
, Apr 5 2016