This is a modified version of mediacontroller plasma5 widget.

It provides the same functionality as the traditional mediacontroller widget, giving you control over every media player in your system (through the MPRIS2 protocol), but it adapts to more factor forms and sizes, allowing you to have a nice media control even on the panel.

• Full Representation (desktop, pop-up):

  • Vertical View (same as in classic mediacontroller)
  • Horizontal View: when the widget gets wider, the album art goes to the left
  • Icon tab bar to select the player in a nicer and quicker way

• Compact Representation (panel, systray):

  • Compact View for panels. It keeps most of the functionallity in a smaller size: icon/album art, track/artist, player controls and progress bar which uses the same style as the taskbar progress jobs.
  • Minimal View for thinner planels, hiding the album art and progress bar
  • Icon View for smaller sizes (same as in classic mediacontroller)

The selected view is based on the widget size and ratio (suited to my personal taste). If the plasmoid gets some interest, I can try to add some configuration values for the compact view such as minimum/maximum values, and items shown/hidden.

As a disclaimer, it is one of my first tries on qml and plasmoids, and I just wanted to have a nicer media player applet for my panel, while keeping the most of the classic widget untouched. Of course, my main wish would be for this changes to be integrated in the official mediacontroller applet, which I find kind of visually simple in its current state.