Review Request 126647: [Task Manager] Provide media controls in tooltips

[Martin Klapetek]

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One idea I was thinking about for this case - why not replace
the audio player window thumbnail with the album cover art?

The window of the player is not really useful in the thumbnail;
it's mostly just a window with some listviews and controls anyway,
nothing interesting or useful. But we do have more interesting
data for it - showing the album art instead (if available on the
mpris). That would at least give some useful/nice info. Plus the
music players are usually minimized anyway (breaking the thumbnails).

Thoughts?

- Martin Klapetek


On Jan. 5, 2016, 9:45 p.m., Kai Uwe Broulik wrote:
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> (Updated Jan. 5, 2016, 9:45 p.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma, KDE Usability and Eike Hein.
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> Bugs: 352126
>     https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=352126
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> Repository: plasma-desktop
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> Description
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> This adds media player controls to the tooltip of a media player, using the already existing mpris dataengine this was pretty straightforward to implement.
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> In order not to change the tooltip dialog size, the controls are placed ontop of the thumbnail with a little fade effect at the bottom to improve contrast.
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> There could be multiple grouped windows of a given player, unlikely though, but it doesn't look too bad with that either.
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> The app in the screenshot is just for demo purposes, the buttons are disabled in the screenshot, they're a darker black usually.
> The button reflects play/pause state, forward/back are disabled if not possible and the controls, obviously, are only shown for tasks with an associated mpris interface.
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> Diffs
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>   applets/taskmanager/package/contents/ui/Task.qml 2a88886 
>   applets/taskmanager/package/contents/ui/ToolTipDelegate.qml 972dd62 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/126647/diff/
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> Testing
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> Works with VLC and Audacious, does not work with Dragon as the player announces itself as "dragonplayer" while its Desktop file says "dragon"
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> File Attachments
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> Tooltip with media controls
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2016/01/05/79c94b3c-5d64-4eb2-8cc6-1541abf28e5f__mpristaskfade.png
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> Thanks,
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> Kai Uwe Broulik
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