turning screen greyscale?

[wolftune]

This might need to be more at a lower system level, but I noticed this because GNOME 48 announced "Digital Wellbeing", one of the only break-focused features built into such a system.

GNOME's approach includes reminders for eye-breaks and movement-breaks with some small/large approach.

The main focus it has that Sane-break lacks is stats (#14) and daily limit (#13), and the main interesting thing is the option to turn the display greyscale at the daily limit.

If it's possible to do greyscale within sane-break, I can imagine some interesting options. It could be done when postponing (to make postponing still functional but more obvious that it's happening). It could be done after some amount of time when nag is being ignored, prior to (or even instead of) forcing the break.

[AllanChain]

While it is technically possible to enable grayscale mode on Windows, macOS, GNOME, and KDE, achieving this requires significant effort. Perhaps we could explore alternative solutions. For instance, one idea could be to create a full-screen transparent window with subtle edge decorations. A quick (though not ideal) example might look like this:

[wolftune]

if decorations like that are easy, I could imagine various options that are just annoying enough, like dark-light zebra-stripes or half-screen darkened. Could be user-set. It's all about finding this intermediate between forced break and encouraged-break. Whether its for taking breaks or for a daily limit as in #13

In my case, I don't want to turn off forced-break right now, and I have once or twice done the override kill to get back to work. But if there were this sort of option for annoying-overlay (or greyscale which would still be nice if feasible), then I'd still have this sense that I can continue working if I really feel the need but that I can get the annoyance to go away by actually taking the break. It's like an extra layer to add to the nag prior to jumping to force-break.