alt Hacker NewsAnything has to be better than Android, man. Samsung's "adaptive" brightness being full loss of control, only using the one map that's builtin is infuriating. It should also be capable of adapting to what I want, somewhat, too, at the same time.
Adaptive meaning "you have no control" is so typical of computing, so bad.
Especially on phones, where yes we need mass market acceptability but where these kinds of fixedness really hamper people so much. The more constrained platforms are the ones where it's most important of all that we have adaptability & extensions, freedom to use our options well.
On the ALS (ambient light sensor ) front: anybody else out there with a ColorHug ALS (or two) they have barely used at all? Would be lovely to make use of this more, even a decade and change down the road!! https://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2015/03/17/introducing-color...
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There's usually a large gap between Android and Samsung. If you've tried Samsung, it's not necessarily going to be the same, even if they started from AOSP.
Reminds me of the libinput mouse acceleration situation. Even now that they support more configuration for mouse acceleration, a lot of desktop settings UIs abstract it all away to the point where the actual effect of a setting change is impossible to discern from the UI.
It's do-it-like-Apple disease. Apple gets away with it because they hire the best designers and do serious UX/HCI research. And even then the Apple experience is a blend of sublime wonderment and intense frustration.
By contrast, the level of care for the user and open configurability and KDE makes it the best desktop environment on Linux.