Bug 495370

Summary: After updating to 6.2 screen contrast and color management has worsened
Product: [Plasma] kwin Reporter: stefanob <bartoletti.stefano>
Component: colour-managementAssignee: KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: nate
Priority: NOR Keywords: regression
Version First Reported In: 6.2.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In: 6.2.3
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Attachments: comparison

Description stefanob 2024-10-26 08:39:29 UTC
Created attachment 175247 [details]
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SUMMARY

After updating to èplasma 6.2.0 I am experiencing a slight but very noticeable issue with screen contrast and color management, especially between light grays and white, to the point where they are so similar to be basically indistinguishable from each other.

This issue
- happens with Wayland, but not with Xorg
- happens when "Night Color" screen setting is enabled, and not when turned off (or is not noticeable) 
- when turning on/off "Night Color", the color is not transition smoothly like the orange light, but switches abruptly from "good contrast" to "bad contrast" (I hope to have been clear enough, I'm trying to describe a transition state just by using words)

I'm attaching a couple of screenshots, they were taken with my phone since this issue is not visible in screenshots taken i.e. with spectacle, it only affects screen rendering.

This is noticeable in example on GitHub "code boxes"
https://github.com/stefanobartoletti/eslint-config?tab=readme-ov-file#installation

or in tables that have rows colored in alternating white/gray, making them less readable.

This may seem trivial but as someone working in web design it is very important to me to be able to properly tell colors apart.


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS

Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20241023
KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.1
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.7.0
Qt Version: 6.8.0
Kernel Version: 6.11.3-2-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 4800H with Radeon Graphics
Memory: 15.0 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Graphics


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2024-10-28 03:07:13 UTC
This is fixed already for Plasma 6.2.3.
Comment 2 stefanob 2024-11-07 22:53:41 UTC
I have updated to 6.2.3 and this porblem is still present.

Is there something that I could do on my part?
Comment 3 stefanob 2024-11-15 18:35:10 UTC
I'm reopening this as upgrading to 6.2.3 has not fixed it for me.

I can try to provide more info and context if needed, just ask.
Comment 4 Nate Graham 2024-11-15 18:41:16 UTC
Looks like I was wrong indeed. We're tracking this in Bug 495254 now. Thanks for following up!

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 495254 ***