Created attachment 172469 [details] Chrome browser SUMMARY When playing videos in Chrome browser, KDE Plasma panel does not show videos played in small windows (Window Thumbnails). This is not the case in Firefox. I think this problem is caused by Media Player. Trying to remove this add-on disrupts the system stability. Also, when I open Chrome browser as Secret Window, it shows in Window Thumbnails without any problem. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open a video from YouTube in your Chrome browser. 2. The playing video does not appear in the Window Thumbnails that open when hovering over the Chrome browser icon in the panel. 3. When you do the same things in the Firefox browser, everything is as it should be. OBSERVED RESULT The playing video does not appear in the Window Thumbnails that open when hovering over the Chrome browser icon in the panel. EXPECTED RESULT The playing video appears in the Window Thumbnails that appear when hovering over the Chrome browser icon in the panel. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: KDE neon 6.0 KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.4.0 Qt Version: 6.7.2 Kernel Version: 6.5.0-45-generic (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 5700X 8-Core Processor Memory: 15.5 GB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Graphics ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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What exactly do you mean by "Trying to remove this add-on disrupts the system stability"? It's actually not removable. Are you saying you've got it set up be disabled in the System Tray settings window or something? Regardless, everything seems to be working as intended here. Chrome's thumbnails show the media cover art, as sent by the browser. In Firefox this doesn't happen because the browser doesn't send any cover art, so you get the standard window thumbnails. If you want cover art in Firefox, you'll need to either use Plasma Browser Integration, or Tell Firefox to turn on its own MPRIS media player exporting functionality. IIRC there's something for that in about:config. See also: - https://winaero.com/enable-or-disable-media-controls-in-mozilla-firefox/ - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/control-audio-or-video-playback-your-keyboard?redirectslug=firefox-media-controls&redirectlocale=en-US
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #4) > What exactly do you mean by "Trying to remove this add-on disrupts the > system stability"? It's actually not removable. Are you saying you've got it > set up be disabled in the System Tray settings window or something? > When I try to uninstall it, it wants to uninstall all the other KDE Plasma components due to dependencies, which means the system becomes inoperable. That's what I mean... > Regardless, everything seems to be working as intended here. Chrome's > thumbnails show the media cover art, as sent by the browser. In Firefox this > doesn't happen because the browser doesn't send any cover art, so you get > the standard window thumbnails. If you want cover art in Firefox, you'll > need to either use Plasma Browser Integration, or Tell Firefox to turn on > its own MPRIS media player exporting functionality. IIRC there's something > for that in about:config. I guess I'm not expressing myself well (because I'm not a native English speaker) When playing a video in Chrome, I prefer to see the video content as Window Thumbnails instead of the media cover art. Firefox does the right thing here. The bad ones are Chrome and Plasma Integration... Without further ado, I think Plasma Integration and similar add-ons should be optional. We should be able to delete them or at least disable them whenever we want. Note: I think the confusion is caused by having both browsers (Chrome and Firefox) open at the same time. Note 2: Is this a fatal problem? Of course not. But it's annoying for someone as obsessive as me.
(In reply to hsnnsnc from comment #5) > When I try to uninstall it, it wants to uninstall all the other KDE Plasma > components due to dependencies, which means the system becomes inoperable. > That's what I mean... Yeah, exactly. And that's what I meant by "It's actually not removable." :) > When playing a video in Chrome, I prefer to see the video content as Window > Thumbnails instead of the media cover art. Firefox does the right thing > here. The bad ones are Chrome and Plasma Integration... Then you need to disable MPRIS/media player integration in Chrome. There's gotta be a way to do it in the app. > Without further ado, I think Plasma Integration and similar add-ons should > be optional. We should be able to delete them or at least disable them > whenever we want. Plasma Integration is optional. You can remove it at any time. The aforementioned Media Player widget is not, but it's not the cause of this, it's simply one other place where media player stuff does get shown. Basically what I'm saying is that if you don't like the fact that Chrome exports its media player data to Plasma, you should just turn it off.