Comment 7 for bug 33349

slider_idea++;

To put some more meat on this from another user, I often will sit "idle" reading a long web page, figuring out a page of code, or deciding what to write next, and inevitably the screen will get dimmer while I'm in the middle of a thought process. This comes at just the right time to be annoying and distracting to me. If the timeout was shorter, I would turn the feature off completely. If it was longer, I don't think I'd recognize the benefits of the dimming before my screen saver cut in, dimming the screen entirely. What I think would be helpful is two-fold:

  * People think differently, at different speeds, and with different queues acting as distractions. An option to change the timeout before dim would be awfully nice. Here is where the slider option might fit well.
  * Other times, I think the timeout would be great set to a shorter value, except for key moments when I'm clearly working. In these moments, it should not interfere at all. An option to perform a mouse gesture / keystroke combination / mouse placement that would temporarily disable or increase the timeout length would be awfully useful. Perhaps the upper right of the screen, or something similar to OS X's hot corners.