On 24.11.2011, at 16:09, Paul Fox wrote: > bert wrote: >> Today is a sunny day in cold Germany, unlike in the first half of the week. >> So >> I took the 1.75 outside. >> >> IMHO the auto-off is fine as implemented in os12. Not distracting at all. >> Someone suggested turning it back on quicker, I tried that (replaced >> brightness_ramp with set_brightness), but that was much less nice. >> >> As I said previously I like the new mono toggle using the brightness keys >> with >> ctrl. >> >> But I also like the switch to mono when turning the brightness down >> manually. >> Much more convenient (and way more discoverable) than having to remember the >> ctrl-modifier. So I added those two lines back just as they were before, and >> it >> works fine. I would find it a foolish consistency to drop this just because >> automatic switch-off doesn't do it. > > okay, sold. > > i did have a very brief chance to play with the laptop in the sun two > days ago, and after trying more varied types of content, i better > appreciate the value of mono mode. it's sunny here today, so i hope > to get to play with it some more myself. > > i've implemented what a couple of people suggested for brightness key > behavior:
(haven't seen that yet in your git repo) > - reducing brightness manually to level 0 remains colored (unlike > past releases, where level 0 also implied mono). > > - hitting "brightness down" one more time when at level 0 will > switch to mono. users that use auto-repeat to get there probably > won't see a difference. Not needed, see below. > - alt-brightness-down goes to level-0 in mono mode, as it always did. > i think it's a coin-toss whether it should go to level-0 in mono or > level-0 in color. (thoughts?) Mono. > - "brightness up" from level 0 (whether from the color or mono > version of level 0) will always go to level 1, and restore color. > > - sunlight-driven auto-turnoff will go all the way to 0, but won't > invoke mono mode. > > bert, i think you approved of the idea of this scheme on irc, please let > me know if you still think so. > > paul I now think having two zero-brightness settings (crisp / blurred) does not make sense for general usage. +1 to what Gary wrote in his followup. For those who want to play with that we have ctrl-brightness-down/up to toggle blurryness ;) So I would rather not add that extra step "below 0". - Bert - _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
