Bug 511587

Summary: Allow manually selecting day/night theme from the brightness and colour applet
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Quentin <kde>
Component: Day/night scheduleAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: kdedev, vlad.zahorodnii
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 6.5.2   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Quentin 2025-11-03 20:50:04 UTC
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SUMMARY

I'd like to have a toggle in the brightness and colour applet to manually select between the day and night theme and/or a way to suspend switching. Similar to what is available for night light configuration.


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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 TraceyC 2025-11-13 21:48:28 UTC
This seems worth considering.