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[Feature Request] OLED gaps. #1498

Open ngeraks opened 2 years ago

ngeraks commented 2 years ago

Here is a humble feature request on behalf of OLED-tv owners. As you probably know displaying static images for long periods of time can introduce a burn-in effect on certain brands of oled panels. Often tvs have a 'pixel shift' feature or static image dimming, which are supposed to mitigate some of these effects, as well as brightness limiters of various kinds.

What I propose is an additional option to the pop-shell tiling mode called 'dynamic gaps' or something similar and or dynamic view. This simple toggle would periodically do gap-shifting to a degree specified by the user e.g. 5 pixels max, with a 1 pixel step. Or reduce the available screen resolution and shift the entire viewport.

This is just an idea, but since I am looking to buy an OLED I thought using it with pop-os and a bright active hint may pose some issues. I hope this gets implemented.

Cheers!

skewty commented 2 years ago

Perhaps using some CSS animation would be better. I am thinking a slow throbbing (slowly decrease brightness of the highlighted region followed by slowly increased brightness)