pdabrowski added a comment.
Maybe I should explain my motives and probably that would let us (including me) understand the goal better. I use Night Color only occasionally and I want to turn it on *manually*. And I like my tray clean. So I only need this icon when I have it manually engaged (i.e. un-inhibited). But I perfectly understand the need for Timed modes, which are a great feature. So they should provide a good user experience as well. **CURRENT STATE:** Currently there is no Manual mode available. You can select "Always on" in configuration, which will engage it every time you log in. This is not good. And also the "[ ] Activate Night Color" checkbox together with the possibility to inhibit the feature is confusing. There seem to be two separate ways of controlling this feature. F8230238: night-color-0.png <https://phabricator.kde.org/F8230238> **PROPOSAL:** Maybe we could go with something like this: - Night Color system is always enabled (no "[ ] Activate Night Color" checkbox in the configuration) - by default set to Manual mode (see screenshot below) - Manual mode has a configuration option for setting the state at logon: "[ ] Active at logon" (unchecked by default) - the only way to disable the entire feature is what currently is named inhibition , which should be renamed to Disable F8230240: night-color-2.png <https://phabricator.kde.org/F8230240> Also we could also polish the naming... current wording used all over this feature are very confusing: - "activate" in the configuration - "active", "inhibited", "not running", "disabled" in the tooltip - "On" and "Off" in the toast OSD message My suggestion (consistent with the proposal above): - "active", "inactive" (used in tooltip) = Night Color in effect or not - "disabled" (used both in the tooltip and OSD) = what currently is named inhibition **CONCLUSION:** So with the Manual mode you have 2 states toggled from the tray icon: "disabled" or "active". And in Timed modes you can have it "disabled" from the tray icon or "inactive" (daytime) and "active" (at night) otherwise. **TRAY ICON:** As for the tray icon visibility (for the states above): - Manual mode: disabled=invisible, active=visible - Timed mode: disabled=invisible, inactive=invisible, active=visible And of course after setting the tray icon to "Always shown": - Manual mode: disabled=visible, active=visible - Timed mode: disabled=visible, inactive=visible, active=visible REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D27972 To: pdabrowski, #plasma, zzag, ngraham, #vdg Cc: broulik, plasma-devel, Orage, LeGast00n, The-Feren-OS-Dev, cblack, jraleigh, zachus, fbampaloukas, GB_2, ragreen, ZrenBot, ngraham, himcesjf, lesliezhai, ali-mohamed, jensreuterberg, abetts, sebas, apol, ahiemstra, mart
