Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Allowing Apps to control the screen display

2014-06-04 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 04.06.2014, 15:40 +0200 schrieb Thomas Voß: > One alternative approach could be to allow the app to request an > app-specific idle timeout within reasonable limits. > That would also help in solving Oliver's ebook-reader use-case. oh ! i like that idea a lot ... ciao

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Allowing Apps to control the screen display

2014-06-04 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Hi Thomas, In the night mode, I would not expect the screen to stay bright. I think the design team's intention was to clearly differentiate between the different clock modes. Besides in the Night Mode, the clock hands will still use the proper colors, it will be just the background of the app tha

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Allowing Apps to control the screen display

2014-06-04 Thread Thomas Voß
Hey Nekhelesh, thanks for bringing up the topic here. Some questions that came to my mind when reading your mail: (1.) Would you expect the screen to stay bright when in night-mode? If not, I wonder if a darkened background makes sense at all, as the displays would autodim. (2.) Using the ph

[Ubuntu-phone] Allowing Apps to control the screen display

2014-06-04 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Hey everyone, During the sprint at Malta, we were given new designs for the clock app. It introduces a new mode called the "*Night Mode*" where the user can use the phone as a clock stand. In the Night Mode, the clock app will show a basic clock with all other UI elements hidden and also use a dar