https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=521422

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(In reply to Zamundaaa from comment #1)
> A window being fullscreen doesn't change anything at all about the ideal
> brightness of the screen. We definitely won't support that.

Hang on, the user should the judge of the ideal brightness of the screen for
the particular ideal brightness of the screen, based on the context of what
they are looking at.
A full screen window absolutely does change, not necessarily the ideal
brightness, but the ideal variance of brightness around a given type of
content.

> > for example it is pretty annoying in the middle of a fast paced game to 
> > suddenly be unable to see what is happening on the screen because the 
> > sensor read a lower ambient brightness and scales the brightness way down
> That's not specific to games in any way. If something doesn't work as
> desired, report that issue, not a possible workaround for the issue.

It is pertinent to games, and I'd add film and television, for the same reason
they are full screen, because the user wishes to focus on it without
interacting with the rest of the system, in particular the brightness keys. 
Games and media are sensitive to contrast, in combination with the user's
preferred brightness for the particular place, time and content.
The auto-brightness feature is on the other hand great for multi-tasking
because the user may already be switching between different applications and is
already in a place to modify the brightness if it is too dark or too bright.

> > Furthermore (and this is probably a bug in and of itself) the change in 
> > brightness can make applications, particularly video players, drop frames 
> > while the interpolated brightness change is happening.
> Yeah, that shouldn't happen. Does it happen only with mpv, or also with
> different video players?

It happens in particular when a battery-saving power mode is applied with
power-profiles-daemon/tuned. I think it is the worst with mpv, but I've seen it
happen with Firefox too. If it happens again, I'll see if I can get a more
concise reproducer for you. Flatpak mpv 0.41.0, plasma 6.6, Bazzite on a
Framework Laptop 13 AMD 7460U

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