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PlayWolf Elements

Plasma 4 Extensions

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Description:

This is a set of Plasma Widgets thoughts to be used in conjunction with Grouping Desktop (http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?action=content&content=116926) to control and show information about songs played by Amarok and other players.
This set provides four Widgets:
-PlayWolf Cover shows the cover;
-PlayWolf Label shows the title, album name, artist and time;
-PlayWolf Button provids a button that can be configured to go back one song, forward one song, stop or play/pause;
-PlayWolf Slider shows a slider that can be used to seek the song.

Moving and putting the different widgets in different groups in various ways you can obtain every interface you can think of!

This is experimental, still, so do not expect it to be glitch-free, but it should work.

Last changelog:

10 years ago

0.2.2
-Don't freeze Plasma

0.2.1
-The color of the text of the label respects the theme settings.

0.2
-PlayWolf Cover can show a user-defined image when there is no cover
-PlayWolf Button set in play/pause mode can open a user-defined player when there isn't one open

0.1.1
-fixed a crash when closing and reopening Amarok within the same session.

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karoshiboy
10 years ago

After updating to 0.2.2, fonts turned black on my system (running 4.6 trunk). very hard to read on my desktop... all other plasma fonts are white.

screenshot:
http://ompldr.org/vNXY1NQ/playwolf.png

karoshiboy
10 years ago

happens also with other plasmoids on kde-trunk right now, so, its not a problem of playwolf-elements.

giucam
10 years ago

Well, that is strange sice 0.2.2 doesn't introduce a single change in the code of the applets relatively to 0.2.1. All i modified was the .desktop files. Which version did you have before?

karoshiboy
10 years ago

Well, I'm using the arch linux packagebuild from AUR, so i guess i was using 0.2.1 before...

TheBlackCat
10 years ago

Most of the widgets in this package freeze plasma consistently when I try to add them. Only the album art works. I am using KDE 4.5.2 and Qt 4.7 if that helps.

giucam
10 years ago

Thanks for pointing that out, now you can update or wait for 4.5.3, which one you prefer :P

TheBlackCat
10 years ago

That seems to have fixed it. Thanks!

I have some unrelated suggestions:

1. It would be nice if we could disable the place background on the individual items.

2. For instance with the folderview widget there is a "shadow" around the text that makes it easier to read. This might a solution to the earlier concerns about readability.

3. I personally prefer playwolf's slider, it would be nice if this was an option.

4. It would be nice if there was a button to open the Amarok window, like playwolf has.

5. It would be nice if the label supports html code for formatting.

6. It would be nice if the slider could be set to handle progress or volume.

7. It would be nice if there was a lyrics elements.

giucam
10 years ago

1. Place background? I don't understand what you mean.

2. Makes sense, will do.

3. The Playwolf's one is a bit more complex to do but it is doable. And i agree it's more cool, so i could do it.

4. I don't know... it works with other players too, so why Amarok and not Juk, for instance?

5. Uh, it seems QLabel can render html. So there's the possibility you can already do it. Have you tried?

6. Makes sense.

7. See above :)

TheBlackCat
10 years ago

1. Sorry, "place" was a typo, I just meant the widget background. Other widgets usually call the setting "transparent", but that almost always means "completely invisible".

2. Great.

3. Also great.

4. It is a button playwolf has. I just thought that since this is called "playwolf elements" I would expect it to have at least all the elements playwolf has. I guess there is no reason you couldn't have both, though.

5. Yes, I tried. It did't work.

6 & 7. Great as well.

giucam
10 years ago

1. So you'd want to disable the background? Why?

4. But Playwolf works with Amarok only. Anyway i have an idea that could allow me to do that.

Anyway I'm currently busy with Grouping Desktop, since the feature freeze is near. When i'll be tired of fixing bugs only i'll work on this :)

TheBlackCat
10 years ago

1. Primarily it is for the buttons and slider. Particularly for the buttons the background doesn't add anything, the buttons are fine on their own. My plan is to put the buttons and slider over the album art, but the background covers most of the album art. It also isn't very useful for the album art, but that isn't as big a deal. And I could imagine people using layouts where it doesn't help with the logo,either (especially if you use the shadows).

2. Maybe a different name might be good then? Playwolf, as best as I can tell, is named that because it is designed to work exclusively with amarok (which uses a wolf logo). If playwolf elements is designed to work with other software as well, then maybe a different name would be better so as not to confuse users.

oOSplashOo
10 years ago

Yeh I did it!My first AUR package!!
ANd it's work!!!
Please add this link to your description:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39667

Ok so now we can install it directly in Archlinux from AUR.

martosurf
10 years ago

Tnx pal

giucam
10 years ago

thanks, i'll add it right now!

oOSplashOo
10 years ago

Hum ok I will do it, the pkgbuild.
I just have to take a look for how to put the md5sums(but don't worry I did it before).

OdinEidolon
10 years ago

How can it be that this is not in Aur yet? Muffo! :P

giucam
10 years ago

Hey! :) i don't know how to do a PKGBUILD, you could do it yourself! ;)

OdinEidolon
10 years ago

You know I'm still under exams, damn.

giucam
10 years ago

ehh, one quarter of hour! :)

OdinEidolon
10 years ago

You come here and have the Dynamics&Termodynamics exam and I'll do it, ok? (though I'll have to learn how to PKGBUILD)

Morgenstern
10 years ago

I really like the feature of opening a player by play/pause button.
Could you please do the same with the stop button for closing the player?
I mean, i would like that pushing stop button closes amarok...

giucam
10 years ago

but amarok places its icon in the system tray, so you can close it anyway in a matter of instants.
sincerely, i don't find this worth the work that would need, but you can try to make me change my mind! :)

Morgenstern
10 years ago

That's true but this way i could hide amarok tray icon; i'd like it because i don't like having thousend tray icons.
Anyway, i think that stop button is not so useful right now: normally i listen to music, or pause it for a little while or i just shot down amarok, i don't use to keep it on in stop mode...
Anyway it's just an idea! :)

Grindcore
10 years ago

I really appreciate your plasmoid as it is one of the rare ones for Amarok, where you can choose which information to show and which not.

But sadly the font-color of the label is as far as I see it always black, which leads to illegibility with many plasma themes.

Could you perhaps add an option to configure the font color in future? Pretty cool would be the possibility to adjust it just like it is realised in the "Adjustable Clock" plasmoid (http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Adjustable+Clock?content=92825). But this is just a suggestion.

Thanks

giucam
10 years ago

mmh, the font color should be told by the theme. do you encounter this problem only when using this, or for every label in plasma?

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10 years ago

0.2.2
-Don't freeze Plasma

0.2.1
-The color of the text of the label respects the theme settings.

0.2
-PlayWolf Cover can show a user-defined image when there is no cover
-PlayWolf Button set in play/pause mode can open a user-defined player when there isn't one open

0.1.1
-fixed a crash when closing and reopening Amarok within the same session.

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