Hi, Il 04 aprile 2012 03:12, Vadim Dombrowski <pftb...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > Hi! > > I'm a student of Belarusian State University and I would like to > participate in GSoC 2012. > > The idea for my project is to create an automatic brightness > adjustment mechanism using web-camera as light sensor. > Today a lot of laptops have integrated web-camera, but don't have any > light sensor. So you should manually change brightness every time the > ambient light changes. > Using web-camera as light sensor should give enough information to do > automatic adjustment. > > So I am interested whether this is a good idea? And if it is, how can > I find/contact mentor or team related to brightness in KDE?
I would be your best contact point for it probably. I admit I am not really fond of the idea - keeping the webcam on and busy all of the time to make it act like an (inaccurate) light sensor is quite a waste of resources to me, and most laptop users would rather live without auto-adjustment than with 1 hour less of battery. A proposal about integrating light sensors (and maybe more hw capabilities) would be instead much more interesting from my POV. > > Best regards, > Vadim Dombrovski.