[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 #29 from Natalie Clarius <natalie_clarius at yahoo.de> ---
It does have a relation to day or night as a period of time because you
configure two different target screen temperatures for two phases. Of course
noone stops you from setting the "night" period to start at 12 P.M., but the
idea is that you have two different phases throughout a 24 hour period, with
the more intense color typically used when it's dark out. (In case you weren't
aware because you don't use it yourself, you can configure are day phase
temperature that is different from the neutral screen color and the night
phase, and in this case it will show as the sun icon in the applet.)

I agree that the name "Night Light" is lacking in that respect ("Day and Night
Light" just sounded too clunky), but this should have no effect on the icons we
use.

There's also the issue that the default temperature for the "day" phase is no
filter at all, and in that mode night light is not deactivated in the sense
that no transitions are scheduled so it wouldn't be appropriate to use a stroke
through icon, but it's also not "active" in the sense that there would be any
filter in effect. This is why we currently show the moon icon in this case as a
generic "night light feature" icon, though personally I find this confusing and
would have preferred to show the sun icon even if the configured temperature is
just the normal no filter. 

So perhaps your additional eye icons might actually solve this problem: We
could use the icon as a generic "Day and Night Light" icon and show this if the
feature is generally enabled but no temperature change is currently in effect,
and use a sun and moon icons for an active filter in the respective phase.

What do you think?

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