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

--- Comment #3 from Zamundaaa <[email protected]> ---
> A full screen window absolutely does change, not necessarily the ideal 
> brightness, but the ideal variance of brightness around a given type of 
> content.
It does not.

> 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.
Automatic brightness is in no way different for multi tasking than for watching
a video.

> 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
With mpv, I wouldn't be surprised, since it's quite heavy by default and it
reacts to color management changes. Firefox also has some color management
code, but I don't think it should be doing anything ootb just yet.

> If it happens again, I'll see if I can get a more concise reproducer for you
Please do.

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