Can't change Night Light transition duration when "Switching times" is set to any option except "Custom times".

General
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I don’t think this information belongs in the bug tracker, so I’m posting it here.

What happened

I was using my laptop at night, and when I was done, I put it to sleep (by closing the lid). The next time I opened it, I noticed that the Night Light transition took longer than I would have liked. When I checked the settings, I couldn't find an option to change the transition duration, because the "Swithing times" option was set to "Sunset and sunrise at manual location". I already knew that you can only change this setting when "Switching times" is set to "Custom times" option.

This feels like a UI/UX issue to me. Imagine if someone experienced the same situation but didn’t know that transition duration can only be changed when “Switching times” is set to “Custom times”. I see frustration-inducing event here.

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Hi - it might not be a “bug”, strictly speaking…but if you’d like to request that as a feature addition to the Plasma Night Color settings page, the KDE Bugtracking System is used for feature requests as well :slight_smile:

If you’d like to request that, you can follow the Community Wiki guide to Issue Reporting, and set the importance to “wishlist”.

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I did what you suggested. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction :smiley:

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Update

This behavior is expected. Here is a reply from a developer:

In this switching mode, the transition duration is currently intentionally locked to the actual sunset and sunrise times. Changing that is tracked by Bug 443234.

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