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Originally Posted by sbaylor
3) If there are enough users who want system-wise (iBooks-like) brightness control, we may consider offering an option. Anybody else wants this?
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Originally Posted by cedhax
I want this too.  To me, sometimes even setting the system brightness to the lowest at night won't be dark enough. Bookmaster allows me to dim it to a more comfortable level with the convenient vertical swipe control. During daytime, however, I would often like to see it applies to the system brightness. When reading at different angles, I need to adjust the system brightness slightly. It's just frustrated to use the tiny iOS system brightness slider. |
Thank you for all the responses from cedax, pugsley, tbergman, odamizu, Jane12, downeaster59 for the last 7 days on this question. Apparently, there are two schools of thoughts. Most prefer the existing way -- app-specific brightness control. So do the developers of BookMaster, of course.
However, cedax has indeed raised an interesting point that BookMaster's brightness control via vertical swipe is a much more convenient way to control screen brightness, app-specific or not, than the tiny iOS system brightness slider, esp. on iPad, even though the vertical swipe gesture is functionally redundant to the brightness control sliders in both the app and iOS control panel.
We have decided to resolve this issue by adding a new option "App-Specific Brightness Control" (default ON, as it is implicitly the case now) in System Settings in the next release of the app. There will be no other related changes in the UI. For users who like the status quo, nothing needs to be done. For those who prefer the other way, just turn off the option. Hopefully, this gives us the best of both worlds.