As discussed at https://pointieststick.com/2023/09/29/this-week-in-kde-time-for-the-new-features/#comment-38277 , I'd expected a recording action to be associated with a red circle, not a green circle. The gnome guys appear to have gone with a more subdued orange color, that still conveys a warning connotation: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2840#note_1791199 See also https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/41434/why-is-the-record-icon-always-round-and-usually-red https://pointieststick.com/2023/09/29/this-week-in-kde-time-for-the-new-features/#comment-38309 notes that Android 12 also uses a green dot, but I wonder if that is actually telling something about Google's respect for user privacy.
Git commit 27275e34360823a33d641c5a2c03daa6edcc41d8 by Nate Graham. Committed on 28/10/2023 at 21:35. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'. Use NegativeText rather than PositiveText for camera-on indicator dot Conceptually, we want to communicate to the user that something potentially noteworthily risky is happening, and this does it. From a practical perspective, the negative text color is generally red, and a red dot commonly communicates "recording right now". FIXED-IN: 6.0 M +3 -3 icons/status/16/camera-on.svg M +3 -3 icons/status/22/camera-on.svg https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/breeze-icons/-/commit/27275e34360823a33d641c5a2c03daa6edcc41d8