When I press brightness down button to the end it turns off the screen. ok, but the level before the screen turns off if not really low. When I click the battery widget in the systray I can pull the display brightness to a much lower brightness (and nicer for dark rooms) level. Looking at /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/ the buttons sets actual_brightness to 42 before turning off the screen and in the power widget I can pull it to 1. Max_brighness is 852. It would be really nice if the lowest level of brightness could be reached with the brightness down/up buttons. Reproducible: Always
yes/no ?
What do you mean with yes/no? (You're not asking a question, and I don't get the context.) The last step should not be reachable as on some hardware it switches the display off with no easy way to turn it back on. That's why it's skipped. yes/no? :P
I was just wondering if the devs saw my point :-) (Sometimes bugs.kde.org feels lonely) Yeah, so the problem is exactly that turning down the brightness to lowest with the keys switches off the display instead of setting the lowest level of brightness - that's not the case with the battery widget. problem yes/no? ;-)
I'm still having the screen turning off instead of going to lowest brightness in KDE Neon 5.8.2
Can reproduce in: Plasma: 5.12.2 Apps: 17.12.2 Frameworks: 5.43.0 Qt: 5.10.1 Kernel: 4.14.25-1-MANJARO OS: Netrunner Rolling
I'm going to try to implement that. My idea is that the steps when pressing the brightness buttons should not be linear. It should be tiny steps when getting close to 0 and larger steps when getting higher because when you need a bright screen in sunlight, having fine grain brightness adjustment does not make much sense whereas when you are in the dark, even small increases of brightness make a difference.
Proposed patch: https://phabricator.kde.org/D13095 If you can, try it out and tell me what you think.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 403125 ***
I'm afraid this proposal has been rejected; see Bug 430439.