KDE4s icon-tasks had buttons for mpris compatible applications (e.g. amarok, smplayer, vlc ...) to control media with forward / play / pause / back buttons. Seems like this feature was removed or not (yet) ported to Plasma 5. As it provides an easy way to switch tracks on music players, pause videos when you want to hear / see something else etc. I kindly ask you to bring that feature back. The plasmoid providing that in the systray is unfortunately not a real alternative, as it seems to not work well if you have multiple mpris-able applications open. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open a mpris application, e.g. amarok 2. Play music 3. Hover mouse over that icon Actual Results: Popup doesn't provide media player controls Expected Results: Popup provides media player controls Qt is 5.4.2, plasma is 5.4, frameworks is 5.13, apps is 15.08,
Git commit f9e87f911bb7823b1ae1aca16606cc9b50adf7e0 by Kai Uwe Broulik. Committed on 19/01/2016 at 21:42. Pushed by broulik into branch 'master'. [Task Manager] Provide media controls in tooltips This adds media player controls to the tooltip of a media player, using the already existing mpris dataengine used by the Media Controller applet. When album art is available, no window thumbnail will be shown, instead the album art. There will be a close buton on the album art. If the player window is hidden but the player supports the MPRIS "Raise" command and it is pinned to the task manager, its window can still be brought to the front, alleviating the need for a system tray icon. REVIEW: 126647 FIXED-IN: 5.6.0 M +1 -0 applets/taskmanager/package/contents/ui/Task.qml M +239 -69 applets/taskmanager/package/contents/ui/ToolTipDelegate.qml http://commits.kde.org/plasma-desktop/f9e87f911bb7823b1ae1aca16606cc9b50adf7e0