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

[Natalie Clarius]

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

--- Comment #22 from Natalie Clarius <natalie_clarius at yahoo.de> ---
(In reply to medin from comment #21)
> (In reply to Natalie Clarius from comment #20)
> > (In reply to medin from comment #18)
> > > The eye is not enough to represent night light which protects eyes from
> > > screen light, the best would be a combination of shield and eye, but we will
> > > end up with three items in one icon.
> > 
> > We would like to remain unopinionated about whether night light actually has
> > an effect on eye health, and I think the current night light icons are fine
> > because they are not too similar to other tray icons, and we do want to keep
> > the day/night light distinction too. So I don't think we'll need  a new
> > version of those. But thanks anyway.
> 
> If the brightness icon is changed to bulb, it will create another new
> ambiguity, because there's that icon representing night light disabled
> during its activation period, which is also represented as bulb slashed with
> red line.
> 
> So if a bulb with rays represents brightness, then a slashed bulb without
> rays will mean no brightness.

Right. So maybe what we need is a "night light deactivated" icon with a moon
symbol.

> Also, from browsing Breeze icons, I see that there are two dedicated icons
> for max and low brightness, so may be two bulbs with different rays length
> need to be made.

I don't think that's needed here since we just need a generic icon to indicate
that this is an applet about brightness; the existing `brightness-high` icon
was not conditionalized on the actual screen brightness either.

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