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I often find myself locking the screen while a web page is loading just to save a little bit of battery power. So I thought of minimizing screen brightness when there's nothing really important on the display right on the start of every action that's supposedly will take at least several seconds and returning to a previous brightness on any user input or at the end of the action.
 

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Good idea, but there are some challenges. multitasking is one of them - what if user change views to something else, and multi-step process in the background keep dimming screen?

Sure, nothing that couldn't be overcome, but bullet-proof logic should be established, to avoid irritating behavior.

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How about if the displaybrightness got dimmed down above a certain cpu usage?
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sure, we need dimming while playing performance-demanding game
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#5
Originally Posted by Estel View Post
sure, we need dimming while playing performance-demanding game
You shouldnt play those games anyway
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