Created attachment 152448 [details] Media widget shows the media title. SUMMARY This is an undesired change in behavior I noticed in Plasma 5.25.90. The new media controller widget has completely changed its appearance and uses too much horizontal space after [this change](https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/1892) was introduced. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Add a Media Player widget. 2. Play a song/video. OBSERVED RESULT Media widget shows the title of the media being played (attached). EXPECTED RESULT Expected the old compact clickable button without text, or at least an option to change the introduced behavior. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: Kubuntu 22.04 KDE Plasma Version: 5.25.90 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.98.0 Qt Version: 5.15.3 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
When located on a panel, this is intentional. If you want the old behavior back, show the Media Player widget in the System Tray, where the old behavior persists to save space. If that doesn't work for you, can you explain why?
Bringing back the old behavior is easy. You just set isVertical to true in https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/blob/164c1123fd0a4d8a5c9b9d004476da1932098fc7/applets/mediacontroller/contents/ui/CompactRepresentation.qml#L22 But the question is why you need to add the old media controller to your panel. The old media controller is just a plain icon that can only indicates the playback status.
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/2176
Git commit 5e3598661b051b68bc62de410b3ef4cdc8bc32a4 by Fushan Wen. Committed on 29/09/2022 at 00:13. Pushed by fusionfuture into branch 'master'. applets/mediacontroller: add vertical layout to compact representation Two additional layouts are introduced in this change. One is VerticalDesktop, which will show album art and song title and/or song artist from top to bottom. The other is IconOnly, which will only show the album art. Other layouts already exist before this change. M +122 -11 applets/mediacontroller/contents/ui/CompactRepresentation.qml M +2 -2 applets/mediacontroller/contents/ui/ExpandedRepresentation.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/commit/5e3598661b051b68bc62de410b3ef4cdc8bc32a4
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*** Bug 460479 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
In my case, I like to put widgets on the panel as I can arrange them in order I want and they are separated from the tray, so I have a physical separation that also represents a conceptual separation (widgets are to interact with the system, the tray is to interact with programs). So having the widget sit in the tray is not really convenient, nor is to have it take a whole lot of space on the panel. The "classic" media player widget works perfectly well and requires no change to fit in this use case.
Reason seems reasonable