Re: powerdevil screen brightness linear vs nonlinear adjustment idea

2019-02-22 Thread Kai Uwe Broulik
Hi, PowerDevil maintainer here. Unfortunately, I haven't had much time to look after PowerDevil, but I agree that a logarithmic scale for screen brightness makes sense. Perhaps PowerDevil can even abstract that way from the user, so the UI in Battery Monitor for instance stays linear 0-100%

powerdevil screen brightness linear vs nonlinear adjustment idea

2019-02-20 Thread Sparr
I have noticed that every laptop backlight brightness tool I have used, including powerdevil and xbacklight and brightnessctl, increments and decrements linearly through the available range of brightness values for the backlight driver. powerdevil attempts to split the range into 20 steps, so on m