From 7b69c19b292eb5e7f69cdc4634b4918410b6512e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mattias Andrée Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 20:52:20 +0100 Subject: README{ => .md} MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Signed-off-by: Mattias Andrée --- README.md | 71 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 71 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README.md (limited to 'README.md') diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8caa260 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ +Request for contribution: + + If anyone have a monitor with backlight + supported by xbacklight. src/blueshift_randr_c.c + needs to be extended to be able to read and set + backlight settings. src/blueshift_idcrtc.c can + be used as a starting point of the implementation. + + + +Blueshift adjusts the colour temperature of your +monitor according to brightness outside to reduce +eye strain and make it easier to fall asleep when +going to bed. It can also be used to increase the +colour temperature and make the monitor bluer, +this helps you focus on your work. + +Blueshift is inspired by Redshift but is vastly +more flexible and solves some problems with Redshift: + + - Decreases the colour temperature too early + during the winter which can make you tired + during daytime. + + - Limited support for settings such as + brightness and contrast. Technologies like + Blueshift and Redshift needs to remove all + settings made by other programs, to be + portable and to have get accuracy, which + means that you cannot any use other program + at the same time. Redshift supports only + gamman and a limited brightness range. + Blueshift can be extended by the user to + do anything and have built in support for + unlimited brightness, contrast, gamma + correction and S-curve correction. + Brightness and contrast are normally not + important because you should configure + that on the monitors control panel. But + one may want to temporarly so a change + to contrast to increase the brightness + beyond 100 %. Blueshift is to might + knowledge the first program to support + S-curve correction which is important + for LCD monitors which suffers the effects + of S-curves. + + - No support of ICC profiles. + +Blueshift is not user friendly and it is not +meant too be. Blueshift does offer limited +use of command line options to apply settings, +but it is really meant for you to have configuration +files (written in Python 3) where all the policies +are implemented, Blueshift is only meant to provide +the mechanism for modifying the colour curves. +Blueshift neither provides any means of automatically +getting your geographical position; the intention is +that you should implement that in the policy yourself +using library which can do that. Additionally +Blueshift provides not safe guards from making your +screen unreadable or otherwise miscoloured; and +Blueshift will never, officially, add support +specifically for any proprietary operating system. +Blueshift is fully extensible so it is possible to +make extensions that make it usable under unsupported +systems, the base code is written in Python 3 without +calls to any system dependent functions. +If Blueshift does not work for you for any of these +reasons, you should take a look at Redshift. + -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2