KDE Currently Playing

A minimal widget for the Linux Desktop Environment KDE Plasma, Currently Playing is quiet, undistracting, and straight-forward. It does one thing and one thing alone: display the title and artist of the media currently being played.

The widget was made for personal use following my dissatisfaction with other tools of similar functions for KDE Plasma. A publishing plan is pending.

Features

• Display of current media using the data engine mpris2
• Switch sequence of track title and artist
• Customizable separator string between track title and artist
• Font size settings

Installation

KDE Store

The widget is available directly from the KDE Store, which is accessible from KDE GUI upon adding new widget.

Local file

Download the release, and choose this file upon choosing to add widget from local file.

Manual installation

Clone this repository, move it to /home/<your-username>/.local/share/plasma, logout, and re-login. Currently Playing will now appear in your widget list.

Known bug

Spotify

Upon startup, Spotify does not properly send the track information to mpris2 data engine, missing out on most info field except for xesam:url. This leads to the inability to display info until the track is changed. This appears to be a bug from the Spotify Linux client`.