https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=512653
[email protected] changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #12 from [email protected] --- Can't we use `dimming` as visible by running `kscreen-doctor -o`? This is separate from `brightness` and seems to be primarily used to darken the screen before the screen turns off for power saving. You can try it out with `kscreen-doctor output.<output_id>.dimming.0`, replace `<output_id>` with actual output ID, for me it both `kscreen-doctor output.HDMI-A-2.dimming.0` and `kscreen-doctor output.1.dimming.0` work. On one monitor that doesn't really go low enough with hardware brightness there is an option for it to toggle between hardware and software brightness, of course software you can push lower, but hardware keeps better colors and affects power consumption directly. When it's set up to use software brightness, seems like dimming and brightness roughly change the same thing - they are not additive, but override each other instead. Obviously it would be nice if this dimming was accessible both from "Brightness & Color" panel and by keyboard shortcuts. At first I was thinking extra slider would be nice (maybe enabled as an opt-in), but the thing is there is no reason to lower software brightness if hardware brightness can be lowered, and there is no reason to increase hardware brightness if it software brightness can be increased, thus both of them should be on one slider. Maybe we could use a notch in the middle to indicate transition between software and hardware brightness. We could display 0% software brightness as -100% brightness, 100% software brightness as 0% brightness and 100% hardware brightness as 100% brightness, but maybe that won't be clear enough to the users and we still should always display both. Still this might need to be opt-in behind a toggle, as most people won't need software brightness that degrade colors. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
