| Summary: | show thumbnails for currently opened page overing web browser icon in the list of Application | ||
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| Product: | [Plasma] plasmashell | Reporter: | Piotr Mierzwinski <piotr.mierzwinski> |
| Component: | Audio Volume widget | Assignee: | Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs> |
| Status: | REPORTED --- | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | isma.af, nicolas.fella, nowrep, piotr.mierzwinski |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 6.2.4 | ||
| Target Milestone: | 1.0 | ||
| Platform: | Neon | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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Description
Piotr Mierzwinski
2022-08-25 14:06:00 UTC
I'm a bit confused. Why would you want to see what tab is currently opened in the browser? Wouldn't you want to see whatever tab the audio is coming from? > I'm a bit confused. Why would you want to see what tab is currently opened in the browser?
> Wouldn't you want to see whatever tab the audio is coming from?
Yes, would be much better. Actually this is what I want - see the source for example like a thumbnail.
I wasn't sure if this is possible
I'm afraid it's not really possible. We have no way to access the tab content from Plasma, and quite likely the browser doesn't even render the tab content itself when the tab is not active (In reply to Nicolas Fella from comment #3) > I'm afraid it's not really possible. We have no way to access the tab > content from Plasma, and quite likely the browser doesn't even render the > tab content itself when the tab is not active That's why I suggested to show thumbnail of active tab. It would be partial solution, better than nothing where needs to guess. I wonder, if Plasna aware that some tab is playing stream (we can control it), so maybe would to know the title of site what is opened in playing tab? Showing a thumbnail of the whole window would technically be possible, but I'm not convinced that it's worth it. It would do nothing to help distinguish between tabs in the same window, and showing the content of a tab that is not actually playing the media could even be confusing. What would be a proper solution is to show the media name as reported by PulseAudio (see also https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=409453), but neither Chrome nor Firefox seem to set that to something useful (In reply to Nicolas Fella from comment #5) > Showing a thumbnail of the whole window would technically be possible, but > I'm not convinced that it's worth it. It would do nothing to help > distinguish between tabs in the same window, and showing the content of a > tab that is not actually playing the media could even be confusing. > > What would be a proper solution is to show the media name as reported by > PulseAudio (see also https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=409453), but > neither Chrome nor Firefox seem to set that to something useful OK. You are right. Seems what I wished is not feasible in this moment, due to limitation of web browsers. Wait a minute. I wonder how "Media Player" widget knows what is playing by web browser, event tab what's playing is not active. It gets this information from Pulse Audio or web browser? > Wait a minute. I wonder how "Media Player" widget knows what is playing by web browser, event tab what's playing is not active. > It gets this information from Pulse Audio or web browser? That's called MPRIS https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/MPRIS (In reply to ratijas from comment #8) > > Wait a minute. I wonder how "Media Player" widget knows what is playing by web browser, event tab what's playing is not active. > > It gets this information from Pulse Audio or web browser? > > That's called MPRIS https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/MPRIS OK. So could not this be used to get information for thumbnail of tool tip in case of list of applications (here web browser)? |