Hi,
(I assume this is about the "dim after n minutes" feature, i only
remotely tracked the thread)
Yes, it is.
The config UI says "dim" not "alter brightness", so the behavior should
simply be to lower the brightness to n% of the present value ("n" being
little enough to spot the difference but not enough to turn it off) -
and never brighten up.
If 'dim' does not mean 'alter brightness' (to be lower), what else does
it mean? ;)
But your expectation of it is interesting, in that it differs from
Sebastian's (you expect a relative change, Sebastian expects an absolute
one). It's interesting because those differing expectations are exactly
the reason why I want to make this configurable.
If one wants to reach a certain brightness (because the weather alters
between sun and clouds like every 5 minutes or you move indoors etc.),
one should use a slider plasmoid or whatever - the "dim" feature is
certainly not meant for such case (personally i use i as "time to judder
the mouse" hint ;-)
So basically your use case is 'I don't use it'? ;)
To expand on the use case I have: I often let my laptop 'do things'
(compile code, download stuff, do a 'yum update', wait for an answer of
somebody via IM) where immediate attention isn't needed, but it needs to
be somewhat monitored nevertheless (does the code still compile or did
it abort because of a typo?, did the answer arrive?, etc.). Being able
to configure e.g. 'dim to 50% of last brightness' allows me to cover
that use case.
=>
- using a static value for dimming (even precompiled from the brightnes
base config) is wrong. It's even wronger when it can turn off the screen
(since neither is what the GUI suggests)
That's what Sebastian is suggesting, though. With current code, this
static value is '0% of maximum', Sebastian proposes to change it to '5%
of maximum'.
- demanding the ability to set a specific ratio or value is also wrong,
since that does really not seem the idea of the feature.
The idea of the feature, in my view, is 'conserve power while the laptop
is not in active use'. _How much_ power to conserve is - from my
understanding - not part of the idea of the feature, but depends on the
use case.
Regards,
Danny
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