Bug 482148 - Brightness and Color applet: Display hint if "brightness" control is not available
Summary: Brightness and Color applet: Display hint if "brightness" control is not avai...
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Brightness and Color widget (show other bugs)
Version: 6.0.0
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Keywords: usability
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Reported: 2024-03-01 13:06 UTC by postix
Modified: 2024-12-06 22:44 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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2024-03-01 13:06 UTC, postix
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Description postix 2024-03-01 13:06:31 UTC
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I guess the "color" part in "Brightness and Color" refers to the night light feature. This is always available.

However, there are no brightness settings in the applet for me and thus the title "Brightness and Color" is a bit confusing.

Maybe the applet could show a hint or placeholder message that "brightness controls are not available"?
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2024-03-01 21:07:52 UTC
That's true, yeah.
Comment 2 Bug Janitor Service 2024-03-11 13:48:31 UTC
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/4042
Comment 3 Jakob Petsovits 2024-08-03 07:41:21 UTC
The MR linked above was closed for technical reasons.

With PowerDevil being hooked up to KWin brightness on Wayland, I think the way forward is to have KWin provide software brightness adjustments if no hardware brightness capabilities are found. We'll probably want a message like "This screen doesn't provide hardware brightness controls, adjusting its brightness by software will result in reduced color depth." instead.

Either way it seems that we can have brightness controls for all screens going forward.