f.lux beta (another thread)
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@dr_zoidberg590 yes it shouldn't notify you at all until closer to midnight - if this happens again, please send a note.
The goal of this interface is to make the schedule more customized over time while not overwhelming people with controls. So the main slider and the "change color..." selector are all about the current color, which is how we expect most people might think about it.
I think we also probably did ok for advanced users ("setting up your friend's computer") with "All sliders at once" but we don't expect most people to use this, so we hid it just a bit.
Then I agree with you that we don't visually distinguish between the presets pulldown ("set your whole schedule at once" or "undo the thing you did") vs. the rest of the adjustments ("what should happen right now"). We probably should think of a way to indicate that it's the whole schedule at once.
One idea in the design is this: if you've never seen f.lux before and you've just installed at noon, you really can't guess how you want it to look at midnight. In most cases, you have to come back and do it later, or use a preset and hopefully our choices are good enough. But fine-tuning your midnight settings during the day almost always gets you to the wrong place, so we make it harder to do.
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@herf said in f.lux beta (another thread for 4.21):
@dr_zoidberg590 yes it shouldn't notify you at all until closer to midnight - if this happens again, please send a note.
The goal of this interface is to make the schedule more customized over time while not overwhelming people with controls. So the main slider and the "change color..." selector are all about the current color, which is how we expect most people might think about it.
I think we also probably did ok for advanced users ("setting up your friend's computer") with "All sliders at once" but we don't expect most people to use this, so we hid it just a bit.
Then I agree with you that we don't visually distinguish between the presets pulldown ("set your whole schedule at once" or "undo the thing you did") vs. the rest of the adjustments ("what should happen right now"). We probably should think of a way to indicate that it's the whole schedule at once.
One idea in the design is this: if you've never seen f.lux before and you've just installed at noon, you really can't guess how you want it to look at midnight. In most cases, you have to come back and do it later, or use a preset and hopefully our choices are good enough. But fine-tuning your midnight settings during the day almost always gets you to the wrong place, so we make it harder to do.
Exactly. A super-warm color temperature during the day when you've only been awake for a few hours feels extremely different than it does when you've been awake for a long time and you need to go to sleep. So, testing settings during the day isn't as helpful as testing them when you want to be sleepy. When I choose like say 1200K but it's bright and sunny out, I might get the wrong that impression that 1200K will be waaaaay too much at night when I'm getting ready for bed.
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I have some feedback about the new upper-right corner notification: I like the old one better because it had a much higher visibility. When this one comes up, I don't really notice it because it doesn't make me look at it like the old one did. When the old one came up, I felt automatically drawn to look at it. So, I think the best one is a very bright one with a big font, etc.
The first time I experienced the new notification, I thought f.lux was broken because I thought nothing came up. So, I looked up where the notification should be and realized at that moment that f.lux has a new notification. With the old one, it almost forces the eyes to look at it as soon as it appears because we tend to instinctively look at things like that in our peripheral, like things that move or things that suddenly appear out of nowhere. This one doesn't grab my attention at all.
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Installed version 4.21
Issues that are gone:
- When entering a game the screen went brighter (f.lux temperatures changed)
- When closing f.lux i needed to wait 15-20 seconds in order to launch it again
Now it keeps temperatures and i can close it and re-open right away. Good job.
Just one note: Despite working as intended when launching games when you Alt + Tab you see the daytime (6500K e.g) temperature for like 1 sec and then it goes back (instant) to the right temperature (2000K e.g). Both sides, tabbing in and out.
Another thing i noticed: when watching videos and entering fullscreen (i tested on youtube, twitch) screen goes brighter.
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By the way, when taking screenshots or recording videos, this happens:
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@disqQ yes we do this when you haven't rebooted yet, or when you're using a USB monitor.
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@herf which situation are you talking about that requires a reboot? I don't use any USB monitors.
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Are we still asking for reboot at install? It should...
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Well, I was too fast to say my problems went away with 4.21. It only worked once. :(
Before I always had to open f.lux main window to make it update temperature to daylight when I started my computer in the morning. This morning, not even this worked. Now I had to take a slider and move it all the way to 5500k and the temperature was updated. Then I moved a slider back to 6500k.
Could this be a problem with those old Radeon Catalyst drivers?
Edit: Looks like that when I start computer it's always low temperature even if it was daylight 6500k when I last turned computer off. :/
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@TwoCables Are you a Vampire? :D
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@sitayi2308 said in f.lux beta (another thread for 4.21):
@TwoCables Are you a Vampire? :D
PS: I dont have 800k option....where can i enable it?lol
Use the new keyboard shortcuts ('hotkeys') for changing the color temperature. Come on. :)
Hint: check out the f.lux options. Explore and discover. hehe
Oh and Mike, see I'm not the only one who wants 800K. I think the main slider should have 1 range: 800-6500K. If the user wants higher color temperatures than that, then that should be an option they can enable. Or, they can just use keyboard shortcuts.
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@herf No, version 4.21 installed and no reboot as required. Anyway i did reboot my system before writing those things here, so that's no the problem i guess.
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Yeah, reboots aren't required for f.lux updates. Fresh installations of f.lux require a reboot though.
Are you using a USB monitor?
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@disqQ Hmm we only use this transform when everything else has failed. That's usually when you have a device attached (like a docking station with USB/DisplayLink) that doesn't work another way. There might be bugs in the way we test the system though, so any more information about your configuration (GPUs and drivers and monitors and how they're connected) that would help.
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@herf I have a GTX 1070 with drivers version 381.65. Using Dell P2414H with displayport.
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@disqQ said in f.lux beta (another thread for 4.21):
@herf I have a GTX 1070 with drivers version 381.65. Using Dell P2414H with displayport.
Is this with Windows 10's Creator's Update too? I have seen several reports of problems since it came out, and each one was display-related in one way or another.
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Yes, i'm using Windows 10 version 1703, build 15063.138.
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@disqQ said in f.lux beta (another thread for 4.21):
Yes, i'm using Windows 10 version 1703, build 15063.138.
I thought so. :( Here we have yet another case of the Creator's Update causing problems.
For the record, I have Windows 7. I'd bet though that I'd probably be experiencing some display-related problem too if I had Windows 10 and the Creator's Update. It seems that's pretty normal so far.
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Our NVIDIA (Kepler) machine is still on Anniversary (for displaylink testing) so I will try to make a build that prints out some internal state for you.
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Thank you.
