SUMMARY I'd like to suggest, that the window-specific rules shall support to store the invert-effect. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. enable invert effect + assign shortcut to apply to current window 2. open a light/white window 3. press the shortcut -> window is inverted/black 4. close & reopen the window -> window is light/white again 5. open window-specific settings -> no option applies to invert-effect OBSERVED RESULT Geometry and various settings can be restored, but not invert-status EXPECTED RESULT Allow to mark windows as "always-invert" SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Kubuntu 19.10 KDE Plasma Version: 5.16.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.62.0 Qt Version: 5.12.4 Kernel Version: 5.3.0-42-generic OS Type: 64-bit Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-4700MQ CPU @ 2.40GHz Memory: 15,6 GiB ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Not sure that this is doable with the current architecture and whether implementing it is actually worth it.
What's the use case of inverting a window at a permanent level.
(In reply to Vlad Zahorodnii from comment #1) > Not sure that this is doable with the current architecture and whether > implementing it is actually worth it. Would it be easier to remember the transparency level? Then I could set myself a black desktop and make the application translucent to 50%, which will in addition also keep the colors correct - but requires to control the background minimizing everything else. An additional feature request to modify the invert color effect into lowering the brightness was already denied -> Bug 383515 (In reply to David Edmundson from comment #2) > What's the use case of inverting a window at a permanent level. My eye is ill to the effect of showing a halo around bright sources of light, like a cars headlight seen through some fog. So reading anything on a white background is really tiring. Sadly after almost 10 years of dark modes all over the place, you still run into software, that cannot do it or flat out refuses to add something sensable. Only in January 2020 WhatsApp switched to the dark side. M$ added darkness to their file-browser in 2018 ... so I expect it to take another decade, until each and every software conforms. Currently I have the dictionary "Ding" always on top and from time to time I play Simon Tathams Puzzle collections ... both are actually gray, but with the invert effect they become a lot better on my eyes. KPatience also only offers a single dark deck of cards and some medium backgrounds. The list goes on and on. Sometimes it is only the toolbars, that switch to dark or only the content, but explicitly not the toolbars. For me the halo from the bright parts overlaps the "supposedly dark" themed parts. EMails in thunderbird e.g. even with the dark toolbars, I can hardly decipher them next to the bright white mail. On other occations, the dark isn't finished jet: still dark text on new dark background or new light text on old light background ... So these half'n'half dark modes are even worse than going back to light mode and do a clean invert of the whole window. Don't get me wrong: This is already a fantastic feature to support dark-mode on a per window level and I use it every day and love it. So the work-around for me so far is, not to restart programs / the computer and keep the apps open for as long as possible. And in case I have to restart, there is always the shortcut handy. So it is just a minor annoyance to get flashed for a moment until I can press the button.
Thanks for the very detailed explanation!