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A simplified mode only for brightness control with system tray icon or panel widget #16
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My initial reaction was that this would make a nice, discrete, project
for someone familiar with panel widgets in C or C++ to contribute.
Unfortunately, it's not that simple. Changes in the panel widget need
to be reflected in ddcui, and vice versa. At the very least all
instances of shared library libddcutil would have to be able to
communicate, probably over dbus. A more general solution would have a
single instance of libddcutil running as a service, ala colord.
Regards,
Sanford
…On 12/08/2019 05:28 AM, Timur Sultanov wrote:
It would be nice to have system tray/panel widget to quickly control
brightness of attached monitors, similar to ClickMonitorDDC
<https://clickmonitorddc.bplaced.net/> Windows util.
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One option, I think, is to make the ddcui and panel widget live in the same process: ddcui can draw a tray icon via StatusNotifierItem protocol and clicking on "Close" icon in main UI will just hide the window leaving the program running in the background with notification icon visible. Left click on notification icon can show small panel with selected controls, similar to sound level control, and by double clicking or using right click menu user could open the main UI. I'm not sure that engineering a general solution with daemon and multiple interfaces worth it. |
I've given your suggestion that, essentially, ddcui present 2 distinct
UIs. I believe this is possible within Qt - how complicated it would be
I don't know. ddcui internals would have to be restructured to enable
this.
Also, since ddcui would become a long running task, it would need to
handle the situation when displays area added or removed. This requires
changes to the shared library, API, and the ddcui application itself.
This has been on the to-do list for some time. There's proof of concept
code that uses udev to detect display addition and removal, The
remaining changes have to be thought trough. Before that, however,
there ares a lot of "fit and finish" tasks in ddcui that need to be
addressed.
Bottom line: If someone were to build the user interface for a panel
widget, I would consider modifying ddcui to use it. However, this is not
nearly as clean as simply having a separate application that uses the API.
Thanks again for the suggestion,
Sanford
…On 12/09/2019 03:24 PM, Timur Sultanov wrote:
One option, I think, is to make the ddcui and panel widget live in the
same process: ddcui can draw a tray icon via StatusNotifierItem
protocol and clicking on "Close" icon in main UI will just hide the
window leaving the program running in the background with notification
icon visible. Left click on notification icon can show small panel
with selected controls, similar to sound level control, and by double
clicking or using right click menu user could open the main UI. I'm
not sure that engineering a general solution with daemon and multiple
interfaces worth it.
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I think the tray-icon option could be usable without the need to have 2 separate UIs. The behavior could just be that closing ddcui minimize it to tray and that a left click on the tray icon open it back up. Then there wouldn't be any communication complexity, right? Does nothing for the "long-running" part though. |
It would be nice to have system tray/panel widget to quickly control brightness of attached monitors, similar to ClickMonitorDDC Windows util.
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