| Summary: | Plasma Automatic Theme Switching from Day to Night is Too Late | ||
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| Product: | [Plasma] plasmashell | Reporter: | Wyatt Childers <kdebugs.81do7> |
| Component: | Day/night schedule | Assignee: | Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null> |
| Status: | CONFIRMED --- | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | hoffmann_lorenz, ic, ilikefoss, kde, kdedev, mikhailkrt, miranda, vlad.zahorodnii |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version First Reported In: | 6.5.1 | ||
| Target Milestone: | 1.0 | ||
| Platform: | Other | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed/Implemented In: | ||
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Description
Wyatt Childers
2025-11-11 22:53:05 UTC
I would like the default behavior to change as well, or at least to be able to change the behavior. I'd personally like the dark mode to kick in as soon as Night Light kicks in. This seems worth considering. I'm pretty sure this is behaving "as designed", so I'm categorizing this as wishlist (feature request). I noticed this problem too as was getting darker and darker outside and and the switch was still not happening. From what I noticed over a few days, I think it was about 30 minutes too late. I manually changed it to happen sooner, but it would be great if the automatic switch would be tweak a bit based on all our reports from all over the world until is good enough for everyone or most of the people. (In reply to John from comment #3) > I noticed this problem too as was getting darker and darker outside and and > the switch was still not happening. > From what I noticed over a few days, I think it was about 30 minutes too > late. > I manually changed it to happen sooner, but it would be great if the > automatic switch would be tweak a bit based on all our reports from all over > the world until is good enough for everyone or most of the people. Yeah, that's basically what happened to me. For now I just changed my coordinates to manual and moved them an hour or so east to get it to trigger closer to when I need it. (In reply to Wyatt Childers from comment #4) > (In reply to John from comment #3) > > I noticed this problem too as was getting darker and darker outside and and > > the switch was still not happening. > > From what I noticed over a few days, I think it was about 30 minutes too > > late. > > I manually changed it to happen sooner, but it would be great if the > > automatic switch would be tweak a bit based on all our reports from all over > > the world until is good enough for everyone or most of the people. > > Yeah, that's basically what happened to me. For now I just changed my > coordinates to manual and moved them an hour or so east to get it to trigger > closer to when I need it. I don't remember how I did it, but what you did seems familiar and I thing I did the same, with blindly moving a bit east. It would be nice also to unbind the night light from the cycle. Right now, in the settings -> "Display & Monitor" -> "Night Light", it is not possible to manually adjust the time borders of the night light as before, there are "Always off", "Always on night light", "Sunrise and sunset". I'm curious why this was closed as not a bug? (In reply to TraceyC from comment #7) > I'm curious why this was closed as not a bug? Looking at the emails it was an accident from mikhailkrt; changing it back to confirmed. I support this, it has also been bothering me that the day/night theme switching is too late. Configuring the day/night cycle based on manual geographic location works perfectly for Night Light, it gets the start and end times of sunrise and sunset perfectly, and automatically adjusts them throughout the year. But the theme switching is not right - it switches from the light theme to the dark theme at the exact time when Night Light's transition finishes, so at the "end" time of sunset. For me, at this time, for at least half an hour it has already been too dark outside for light mode to be comfortable without switching on all of the artificial light sources. I think it would be much more ideal for the KDE Desktop to switch the light theme to the dark theme at the beginning of sunset, at the time when the Night Light transition first starts. I think that's exactly how Apple's iOS on the iPhone behaves with its automatic light/dark mode switching in the "Sunset to Sunrise" setting. It switches at the beginning of sunset. I hope this will be resolved soon. KDE's automatic light/dark theme switching was a feature that I have been looking forward to for many months, but this issue just makes it uncomfortable to use. Thank you and best regards Regarding my previous comment - my bad - it seems that iOS doesn't switch to the dark mode at the beginning of sunset, but right in the middle, between the beginning and end of sunset. I have no idea how it's handled by other GUI operating systems / desktop environments that have such a feature, but it's probably worth looking into it. |