On the one hand I don't think the app should be rated down for not supporting the LEDs. I guess that's simply not what it was made to do. But on the other hand I too assumed that it would set the brightness to max, it seems so obvious. So I guess I'm not 100% consistent here but who is...
so... Gary: re> sending a patch, is the source available?

autoguy,
sure the source can be gotten 2 ways, apt-get source.. or direct from my github :) thanks.
http://github.com/lcuk