Created attachment 129633 [details] screenshot of media player widget with low with to height aspect ratio The media player widget has a very bad space utilization when using a low width to height aspect ratio (see attached screenshot). The text is always shown on the side of the image. However, in such situations it would be much better to show the text below the image and make the image larger. Thus, this is a suggestion to dynamically adjust the layout (text beside or below the image) based on the aspect ration of the widget. Operating System: Gentoo Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.19.1 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.71.0 Qt Version: 5.15.0 Kernel Version: 5.7.5-gentoo OS Type: 64-bit Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz Memory: 23.5 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: GeForce GTX 970/PCIe/SSE2
We had the exact same issue in Elisa recently, and fixed it there by moving the text to below the artwork when the view is more vertical than horizontal. See https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/elisa/-/commit/6f48964505a3c11839a4aad196f492b4521fdee3 I wonder if we should extract the Elisa view into a shared media player art view that can live in Kirigami and knows how to switch from a vertical to a square or horizontal layout, and then use that thing both here and in Elisa. Thoughts, Carson?
Some time ago I have also created some mockups for playbar2, another nice media widget, which had the same problems. Playbar ended up in three different layouts: vertical, balanced, horizontal. https://github.com/audoban/playbar2/issues/16 Maybe you can use some of the ideas...
Somebody seem to have implemented it in the meanwhile. Text is now displayed below the image for small widths.