[Breeze] [Bug 403833] Icon request: black/white variants of the weather icons

[Friedrich W. H. Kossebau]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=403833

--- Comment #4 from Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kossebau at kde.org> ---
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #3)
> There's definitely value to having a monochrome icon in the panel, but I
> think the colorful icons look much better in the fullrepresentation.
> Generally we only use the monochrome style for 16px and 22px icon sizes, and
> for anything larger we try to use colorful icons. I'd want to make sure that
> the colorful versions stick around and continue to be displayed in the
> applet itself.

For some time I would have rather said the same, but ever since I took over
maintenance of the weather applet, the colorful icons have always felt somehow
a bit strange to me. So I had looked out how other places are doing status
symbols for weather observation/forecast (e.g. on TV, websites, print) and it
seems to me the majority tends to use color-reduced and shape-emphasized
symbols everywhere. Possibly not only to help color-blind people. And by the
time I felt that I actually prefer those presentations with such symbols, they
seem easier to "parse"/"understand" somehow, also look more clear. Especially
with forecasts where all kind of states result in a very colorful icon row.

Also compare this overview of non-plasma weather apps which just popped up, see
in the screenshots how they also favour mono-chrome symbols in the used icon
sets:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/02/weather-apps-for-ubuntu-linux

Next, looking at the current set of status icons in the Breeze theme, the
weather status icons look on the odd side to me, being more abstract paintings
than abstract symbols/pictograms in general like the rest of the status icons.

So when it comes to me, I would rather favour something more abstract in the
full representation as well. Though something way better than what I got stuck
at ;)

Just my 2 cents as consumer. With way too many weather applets perhaps (due to
maintainer real world test coverage) :P

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