Auto disable auto brightness

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Hi there :)

I love Brightness profiles! Use it every day. Very useful when you don't want 
to wake up your girlfriend or get your eyes roasted !

I have a suggestion how to make BP even cooler :)

Please consider simply letting Auto-brightness be a built-in profile 
(undeletable). That way it's much easier to switch to a diffeeent profile! Tjis 
way the user is not forced to 1) turn off auto - 2) find the now visible 
profile and tap it. With my suggestion she can instantly tap the desired 
profile - they're all visible - always!

Also - this way - the user won't have to blindly tap two correct buttons when 
the screen is dark - just one correct tap on the profile name (even 
larger/easier than the small auto check box) is sufficient - and PB should 
close immidiately :)
Get this: that's - at any time - just TWO taps to get to ANY profile - auto 
included :) - whereas currently - when auto is on - it's FOUR taps (tap bp 
icon, tap small auto checkbox, tap profile, tap OK).

I hope that made sense :)

Cheers
- David

Denmark

Hi David,
 Thanks for the suggestion.  I'm not sure if I like the idea of making an auto brightness row in the profile list.  There would be no way of knowing when auto brightness is actually on or not then.  Currently, the checkbox has two states which allow you to easily tell if it's on or not.  Your point about the unnecessary extra click is valid, though.  What if, instead, the auto brightness checkbox stayed as-is, but the profile list was always visible.  Clicking any of the list items would automatically
disable auto brightness.  Does this seem like a reasonable compromise?
Would you mind creating a feature request on the project site in order to
track this issue?
http://code.google.com/p/kraigsandroid/issues/list
That way, others will be able to comment if they have an opinion as well.

Thanks again,
Craig

Thanks for your mail - I agree. I hadn't thought of the selected profile not 
being highlighted. Good thinking! Tapping the slider could also turn off auto.

Your suggestion is surely a great and welcome enhancement! - I think, though, 
that the smaller auto-toggle area is a disadvantage which would be solved be 
having the active profile higlihgted somehow :)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by kraigs.a...@gmail.com on 19 Jul 2010 at 3:41