[Breeze] [Bug 484969] Weather and brightness/night light's icons are easily confused

[medin]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=484969

--- Comment #6 from medin <med.medin.2014 at gmail.com> ---
I'm not an expert in design, but on smartphones, weather widgets tends to use
colorful icons, and those chosen colors appears to be readable both in dark and
light themes, and even with different colorful wallpapers in the background.

Tray icons zone is not a place for only symbolic icons, many installed third
party apps have colorful icons suitable for both dark and light themes. So I'm
for tweaking the old colorful weather icons and make them more legible for
various themes.

But redesigning all those weather icons will surely be fastidious and need more
testing for various scenarios, so the easy solution is to change brightness and
light night icons.

For brightness when light night is disabled, the best icon would be a simple
symbolic bulb.

And for brightness with light night enabled, the suitable one is to combine the
symbol of human eye and the bulb, because light night purpose is to minimize
blue light for eyes, and it has no relation with moon symbol which represent
night, because it can also be used by some people during sunny days inside dark
rooms.

And as a side note, the current icon (slashed bulb) used for light night when
it's disabled is totally misleading, because that symbol naturally means no
light. So when light night is disabled during its activation period, it's best
to use slashed eye icons with bulb.

See attached image for proposed changes.

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