Re: changing the screen brightness adjustment value

RenĂ© J.V. Bertin <[email protected]> Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:00:26 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.general
Message-ID <118765879.R7yhSY1TfF@bmbl>
On Tuesday June 09 2026 04:32:20 Duncan wrote:

>FWIW hoping someone else replies with a proper answer because I'm out on 
>this one, which would likely be right up my alley and I'd have already 
>dealt with it and have a patch if necessary (which being a gentooer is 

Well, I dived a bit into some old code (as things like this are way easier to find before the "big bang" that occurred with KF5).
In KDE4, there were 2 overrides (implementations) of `PowerDevil::BackendInterface::brightnessKeyPressed(BrightnessKeyType, BrightnessControlType)` (for the HAL and the UPower backends). Both have a hardcoded 10% change stepsize.

I'm not sure if this will make it any easier to find the current code responsible for the feature, but I also have no reason to believe that will have been put under user control in later versions (the trend has more been in the opposite direction AFAICT).