mental jacinth
I love RGB. But recently I've found myself looking towards a more minimal setup with less interior light pollution. Disabling the bright white RGB “RTX” on my GPU, utilizing dimming tape to minimize indicator light effects, etc.
With my 80HE, I’ve found myself in a conundrum where while I enjoy having the RGB available (specifically for the FN layer), I don’t like that when I set it to 25% global brightness it feels dim during the day since I have a lot of natural light hitting my desk area. At night it’s perfect and exactly tuned to where I want it, which makes sense because that’s typically when I’m gaming and don’t want it to distract me.
It goes against the current UI kit guidelines, but little toggle button to switch between "Global Brightness" and the "Dimming" functionality would be nice. But this is under the assumption that Wootility can inherit not only the current time and timezone of the user, but the sunrise/sunset times that come with the region. Windows 11 obviously ships with "Night Light" as a function and programs like F.lux have existed for years, but I'm not sure programmatically if that info can be dug up and referenced/imported within Wootility, especially when you have to constantly save and overwrite the existing profile with each change to make it permanent.
But IF it's possible, I think it would be an underrated little function. If the sunrise/sunset is unable to be inherited, having time-based adjustments in a small popup modal when enabling the function would be dope. Just simply having control to set two times for when to enable and disable the dimming function alongside an easing transition to "fade in/out" the global brightness adjustment in steps would be so cool to see happen live. So like a two-pronged approach, #1 - Establish the window by selecting two times and #2 - Define the transition time for the fade in/out to the dim setting. Then adjust the strength of how much you want the global brightness to be affected once the dimming is fully transitioned.