Middle click switch between kelvin and brightness

[jornmo]

I find my self adjusting the brightness very often, and it is a bit of a hazzle to open the settings panel to do it. How about middle clicking the icon switches modes between kelvin and brightness so that both can quickly be adjusted by using the mouse wheel?

[kotelnik]

Sorry for my late response.

If I understand it right: middle click would change between temperature mode and brightness mode. Temperature mode would behave exactly the same like it does now. When in "brightness mode" wheel would change brightness without stopping redshift from automatically adjusting temperature. Is that correct?

[jornmo]

That sounds like what I had in mind :)

[kotelnik]

I've finally did this middle click switch only to realise that it behaves just like screen temperature manual setting (by wheel). That means for now it stops redshift from being updated continuously and just keep it in current temperature forever. I'll fix that soon.

[jornmo]

Well, the settings dialogue lets you define the brightness for the continuous mode, so I think it makes sense that the manual brightness goes along with the manual temperature?!

As a "compromise", how about the middle click does nothing about the continuous mode, but it only sets the brightness for the current running mode, i.e. custom or continuous. But, in my mind, that would make less sense though :)

[kotelnik]

I was working on the "compromise" version. But it is actually more complicated then I thought. I can see 2 problems with this approach:

1. Updating continuous mode has to be preceded by ending redshift -> this causes the screen to flash and also takes more miliseconds (mouse wheel is too fast)
2. Some users have smooth transitions enabled so the live-previewing of changed brightness would be accompanied by constant reset and change of screen temperature

How about sticking to the current situation and adding 2 right-click menu actions:

• "use current brightness" (to allow current manually set brightness use in continuous mode)
• "reset brightness" (set brightness from settings)

Triggering such action would cause only one screen flash, like when applying setting changes. Of course I'm open to other ideas:).