I like that we can now set the brightness level separately for multiple monitors. Great addition imo.
But if I press the function keys, I would like them to change the brightness only on the monitor where my cursor is located. When I use the brightness control on my keyboard, it changes the brightness on both monitors simultaneously.
I’m not aware of any settings where this could be changed. Is it only me who would like this addition? An extra tick somewhere in the settings for this?
Sorry, I didn’t manage to implement different brightness key behaviors for Plasma 6.2. It hasn’t been straightforward to associate the active screen with hardware brightness controls, and also the consensus in code review was that adjusting all screens is a good default.
I am interested in adding functionality to let users configure the behavior of the brightness key (and applet scrolling). Do you have any thoughts on how you would like the configuration interface to work?
I guess the current behaviour is good as a default.
My mind just got tinkering, since back when I had a MacBook, I could change the brightness controls separately for the two monitors, but the brightness controls from the keyboard (or touchbar) worked only on the active monitor. And I quite liked it that way.
I did have to install a third party tool called MonitorControl for it.
So like in KDE, there was an icon in the system tray where I could adjust per monitor with a slider, but In the settings there was an option to choose what display did the keyboard setting apply to (“Screen to control”).
There was also a setting called “Sync brightness changes from Built-in and Apple displays” - “Changes that are caused by the Ambient light sensor or made using Touch Bar, Control Center, System Preferences will be replicated to all displays”. If I recall correctly, by unticking that option I was able to set it so the touchbar made changes only to the active monitor.
The settings layout can be seen on their GitHub page for reference.
For me personally, something similar being present in KDE would be very nice.
