The MR is about 4 weeks old now and the maintainers haven’t looked at it yet
Looks like someone gave a review about 15hrs before this post
this post was submitted on 27 Nov 2023
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Yep, I'm working through the review. He's a contributor though not a maintainer.
This sounds like a big improvement to me. Can users vote for mr?
You can react to the MR with an emoji if you have a gnome gitlab account. I'm not sure if there are mechanisms to vote for MRs other than that.
That's somehow really fitting for Gnome (-_-)
Thank you.
I hate that most Linux brightness controls assume that humans perceive brightness linearly for some reason. I don't want a flash bang in dark surroundings when I forget to use the slider. I don't want to press my brightness up key a thousand times or resort to the slider in bright surroundings.
So yes, please merge this.
You get it. That's exactly what made me write this MR.
Sounds amazing to me. I don't use gnome on a laptop much thusfar but I'd definitely prefer what you describe here
I can see you've gotten some code review so I will just eagerly watch as this gets worked out and eventually merged.
I never had an issue with the backlight curve or lack thereof however a friend recently demoed a similar impl they put together for hyprland and it is a very nice change.
Looking forward to seeing it in the next Gnome release 🤞
This is really cool. I would like to see it merged
Sounds great, and is very welcome! Please merge. Thank you. Do you guys have any idea why ddc/ci controls for brightness control of external screens are not yet implemented in any major De? It's the same on windows, still not part of the Os. Third party tools available since ages.
there is a ddcci dkms driver that exposes displays as Linux backlight devices. That integrates them into all DEs!
But are there any DEs that make use of this and include setting screen brightness on external screens as easy as for laptops? Is it because each screen manufacturer implements altering brightness/contrast/etc. via ddcci differently?
yes, all of them. That's how laptop screen brightness is controlled
Didn't know I wanted this, unfortunately I use Cinnamon, but this is a great feature!
I only use gnome on my laptop, where I luckily have buttons to control brightness, but this seems like a really good thing to get implemented.
I run GNOME on my laptop and I'd definitely love to see more robust brightness control. Thanks for putting in the work to make this happen.