Bug 444083

Summary: Show playback buttons in panel representation
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: David <david.cortes.rivera>
Component: Media Player widgetAssignee: Kai Uwe Broulik <kde>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: nate, nicolas.fella, plasma-bugs-null, sadiyumusak
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.23.1   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
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Attachments: Media Player Plus widget on a side panel

Description David 2021-10-20 04:50:08 UTC 
SUMMARY
The media player widget offers many controlling options when it is clicked. Usually, one would want this widget placed on a panel, from where it is not too useful because any interaction requires clicking it first. Would be helpful if this widget could offer options to display some of the functionalities within the widget itself, so that I could configure it to e.g. have an easily clickable play/stop and prev/next buttons, display the name of the currently playing media, etc.

There are other widgets that can accomplish this but every plasma update seems to break them in different ways so it'd be nice if the official widget could support all the functionalities that one would expect out of this type of widget.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Put the media player widget in a plasma panel.
2. Launch some music player and play a playlist.
3. Try to see what's playing, stop it, move to the next track (requires clicking the widget first).

OBSERVED RESULT
All actions and relevant information require clicking the widget.

EXPECTED RESULT
The most common actions and relevant information should be configurable to appear within the widget itself in the panel (like the unofficial widget "Media Player Compat").
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2025-03-07 16:54:52 UTC 
*** Bug 472674 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Sadi 2025-03-08 08:11:30 UTC 
I prefer using another widget called "Media Player +" (mediacontroller_plus) on my side panel.
Unfortunately, this third party widget hasn't been ported to Plasma 6 (yet).
It seems it would be better to have the official Media Player widget with a few such additional features as options for different use cases.
Comment 3 Sadi 2025-03-08 08:13:16 UTC 
Created attachment 179219 [details]
Media Player Plus widget on a side panel