Edit: Lol this is the third time this video is being posted in this thread sorry. Skip to 30 seconds and you'll see reactive + full back light simultaneously.
Don't apologize -- it's a completely different and much more helpful video.
Outstanding find & well done.
Lots of thoughts/comments:
(1) I'm about 98% sure you're right (can't completely trust that angle/ room lighting -- really too bad that they waited until the 2nd half to turn off the room lights!) and that at 30 seconds he is showing a combo of background+regular_reactive mode. Hopefully the stable / background brightness level can be turned down with reactive still maxed to create a more-noticeable difference / effect -- he doesn't toggle brightness in that step.
(2) Then, it seems like at 48 seconds, he is showing the same combination but now with the delayed_fade-out_reactive. Really pretty killer.
(3) And then, at about 57 seconds, seems he stays in the same background+delayed_fade_reactive mode, turns the brightness all the way up, takes the fade-out delay all the way down 'past nothing', until the Fn button LED goes out, to activate a 'reverse reactive' mode -- in this case, instant / without any 'fade-in delay', it seems. Can't imagine that would be as helpful as the first two for typing, but really nice to know they thought ahead and proactively built it in anyway.
So, as long as these lighting features end up in the shipped design, then looks like I'm going to be adding a Shine3 to my desk this summer/fall, even though I bought my Shine2 for the first time just a couple weeks ago. Ouch. But yay.
Other side comments:
(D) I'm gathering that that spacebar is going to be standard issue, and if so, is really gonna have to go in favor of a blank WASD replacement -- seems they overreached there as it cheapens the look of the entire board. Weird that Slick acted like it was such a point of interest/concern -- I actually really dislike any branding or markings on the spacebar at all.
(E) On the Ducky Mini, I really really hope that they don't stick with that terrible blocky font. [
@Ducky: Play it smart and stick to regular, legible fonts. Please. I can buy an ugly $60 QFR if I want something visually hard-to-track. Please don't do that to a Ducky board / the Ducky brand.]
EDIT: Also, going back and looking at it really closely, seems like "Slick" from the LinusTech video was actually initially using the combo mode at about 2:47 (but either misunderstood it or completely skipped over it) until he turned the background brightness down, down, & then eventually off, leaving regular_reactive. When he switched modes, to delayed_fade_reactive, the turned-down/-off background brightness level then carried over. Still no way of knowing whether there are two separate sets of brightness levels for background vs reactive, though.
