https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=499034
amdfa...@gmail.com changed:
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--- Comment #2 from amdfa...@gmail.com ---
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1)
> Same deal as Bug 499035; it's intentional that brightness is a subjective
> user preference and not a systemwide thing, so it doesn't make sense to
> inherit a different user's brightness setting in a new user account.
Hi Nate, I will agree with you if you were talking about a mobile situation,
like a tablet or a laptop where brightness is expected to change. But this is a
desktop situation, and I will STRONGLY disagree that it's ever appropriate to
override the ***hardware's settings*** in a desktop environment. Desktop users
typically have much less variable ambient lighting, and will spend time
adjusting or calibrating their monitors to a preferred level and leave them be.
It is a big problem that KDE is *making changes to my hardware settings*
without asking my permission/consent to do so. I spent a lot of time
calibrating and adjusting my monitors to how I liked them, and KDE Wayland blew
my calibration away by adjusting the brightness without asking. If it weren't
for the fact I had the brightness value written down, I would have been out of
luck.
This is very much a bug, since no other modern operating system overrides
brightness levels like that:
- Windows does not override my monitor's set hardware brightness level on new
install, or account creation
- The latest edition of Ubuntu (running Wayland) does not override my monitor's
set hardware brightness level on new install, or account creation.
- The latest edition of Linux Mint does not override my monitor's brightness
level on new install or account creation
To add some additional perspective: It costs money to have monitors
professional calibrated. It can be anywhere from $500/monitor or more in a
professional setting to have someone come out and professionally calibrate and
certify your monitor. If a production studio (photography, video, whatever)
gets, 10 workstations, calibrates them, and then hires 10 people to use them -
KDE would cost them $5,000 in blown calibrations the moment they create user
accounts for those employees.
This is *wrong* behavior. The OS should never change my *hardware settings* on
a desktop machine without asking. Ever. No other OS or desktop environment does
this.
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