> On Jan. 5, 2016, 9:28 p.m., Martin Klapetek wrote: > > One idea I was thinking about for this case - why not replace > > the audio player window thumbnail with the album cover art? > > > > The window of the player is not really useful in the thumbnail; > > it's mostly just a window with some listviews and controls anyway, > > nothing interesting or useful. But we do have more interesting > > data for it - showing the album art instead (if available on the > > mpris). That would at least give some useful/nice info. Plus the > > music players are usually minimized anyway (breaking the thumbnails). > > > > Thoughts?
You know what? Kai and I were thinking the exact same thing (though with a bigger scope than only media players, because other applications could make much better use of the space than a regular thumbnail, too), so yes, it would be much better to show the album cover there! - Thomas ----------------------------------------------------------- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/126647/#review90672 ----------------------------------------------------------- On Jan. 5, 2016, 8:45 p.m., Kai Uwe Broulik wrote: > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: > https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/126647/ > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > (Updated Jan. 5, 2016, 8:45 p.m.) > > > Review request for Plasma, KDE Usability and Eike Hein. > > > Bugs: 352126 > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=352126 > > > Repository: plasma-desktop > > > Description > ------- > > This adds media player controls to the tooltip of a media player, using the > already existing mpris dataengine this was pretty straightforward to > implement. > > In order not to change the tooltip dialog size, the controls are placed ontop > of the thumbnail with a little fade effect at the bottom to improve contrast. > > There could be multiple grouped windows of a given player, unlikely though, > but it doesn't look too bad with that either. > > The app in the screenshot is just for demo purposes, the buttons are disabled > in the screenshot, they're a darker black usually. > The button reflects play/pause state, forward/back are disabled if not > possible and the controls, obviously, are only shown for tasks with an > associated mpris interface. > > > Diffs > ----- > > applets/taskmanager/package/contents/ui/Task.qml 2a88886 > applets/taskmanager/package/contents/ui/ToolTipDelegate.qml 972dd62 > > Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/126647/diff/ > > > Testing > ------- > > Works with VLC and Audacious, does not work with Dragon as the player > announces itself as "dragonplayer" while its Desktop file says "dragon" > > > File Attachments > ---------------- > > Tooltip with media controls > > https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2016/01/05/79c94b3c-5d64-4eb2-8cc6-1541abf28e5f__mpristaskfade.png > > > Thanks, > > Kai Uwe Broulik > >
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