AFAIK KDE is not a display manager.
But if your desktop goes completely dark when tuning the light slider all the way down, you wouldn’t be able to see anything, and how then would you turn it up again? If you don’t have an alternative way to regulate than the slider KDE provides.
Seems like a decent precaution to me, if you really want it all black there are other ways, like turning off your monitor, or just use powersaving, or use a black screensaver. Alternatively you can make an app in a few seconds in for instance Lazarus, that goes full screen black. And would be easy to close again when you want the picture back.
The brightness on a TV or monitor doesn’t go to all black either. IDK if it’s a coincidence, but my monitor adjustment, and adjustment in KDE look identical when I have one at 100% and the other all the way down.
But if your desktop goes completely dark when tuning the light slider all the way down, you wouldn’t be able to see anything, and how then would you turn it up again?
I did it in school computer class once with display controls, the controls were affected by display settings, so when I set it to 0 brightness and 0 contrast and left the menu, there was no way to tell what are you doing.
The IT person used a neighbouring monitor to navigate the menu and replicate all the actions on a dim monitor, they were a bit pissed but I guess they also saw it as at least a bit funny
KDE is sometimes still synonymous with KDE Plasma, although the standard display manager for Plasma is now SDDM. So maybe they are talking about SDDM. Although I have a suspicion that this is nothing to do with SDDM and is instead a Plasma behavior.
The meaning of words are ultimately defined by how they are used. Like Hoover is a vacuum cleaner, even though originally it was a specific brand of vacuum cleaner.
The KDE organization can decide they want to call their desktop environment Lolita Doll. I will never call it that. It is and always were KDE.
For the organization to call itself KDE is stupid, because the DE in KDE stands for desktop Environment.
So the organization is calling itself a desktop environment, which IMO is moronic.
AFAIK KDE is not a display manager.
But if your desktop goes completely dark when tuning the light slider all the way down, you wouldn’t be able to see anything, and how then would you turn it up again? If you don’t have an alternative way to regulate than the slider KDE provides.
Seems like a decent precaution to me, if you really want it all black there are other ways, like turning off your monitor, or just use powersaving, or use a black screensaver. Alternatively you can make an app in a few seconds in for instance Lazarus, that goes full screen black. And would be easy to close again when you want the picture back.
The brightness on a TV or monitor doesn’t go to all black either. IDK if it’s a coincidence, but my monitor adjustment, and adjustment in KDE look identical when I have one at 100% and the other all the way down.
I did it in school computer class once with display controls, the controls were affected by display settings, so when I set it to 0 brightness and 0 contrast and left the menu, there was no way to tell what are you doing.
The IT person used a neighbouring monitor to navigate the menu and replicate all the actions on a dim monitor, they were a bit pissed but I guess they also saw it as at least a bit funny
KDE is sometimes still synonymous with KDE Plasma, although the standard display manager for Plasma is now SDDM. So maybe they are talking about SDDM. Although I have a suspicion that this is nothing to do with SDDM and is instead a Plasma behavior.
The display manager is separate from KDE/Plasma, and can easily be changed to something else.
KDE is not a DM it’s a DE.
KDE is an organisation, if we’re being pedantic
Historically KDE is a desktop environment.
The meaning of words are ultimately defined by how they are used. Like Hoover is a vacuum cleaner, even though originally it was a specific brand of vacuum cleaner.
The KDE organization can decide they want to call their desktop environment Lolita Doll. I will never call it that. It is and always were KDE.
For the organization to call itself KDE is stupid, because the DE in KDE stands for desktop Environment.
So the organization is calling itself a desktop environment, which IMO is moronic.