Todo List - Contributions needed

[Batwam]

It's me again!

Features list for discussion (original list):

• [x] Add an option to include application icons alongside the label (See #5)
• [x] Add a user definable filter list for mpris sources (See #20) - included in v11
• [x] Add menu to select active player by a dropdown menu (See #23)
• [x] Add an option to pause a player by clicking the label (The original item was small in scope because of limitations(776ed060a51db3d8efc81e607f87f8f581a6e183), later widened and added in ce3dc073735db7543970059c2080b0d3cee07592, see #26)
• [x] Make this extension refresh asynchronously (See #7)

My thoughts:

1. Interesting idea, I wonder if there is an automated way to locate/load these icons in gjs. It would be possible to include icon for the usual apps (rhythmbox, spotify, firefox, chromium,...) which would probably easier but I'm not sure if copyrights would allow it and there is a risk the icon shipped may not match the one used in the distro... there may be some content in the Vitals or runcat github repo which could be reused to load icons next to the text as they both have that.
2. Could work. Alternatively, a drop down (or equivalent) with common apps might work too.
3. In terms of implementation, there may be some code to be taken from the Vitals extension as it allows to chose content based on a menu activated when clicking the extension: https://github.com/corecoding/Vitals
4. it might get confusing if clicking shows the menu in some cases but pauses in other cases? Including these controls within a menu might be better, something similar to this other discontinued mpris extension
5. I agree that the current implementation which continuously updates is somewhat suboptimal but I don't know if this is even possibly. If it was, I wonder how much this would really save in terms of resource.

• [x] Bonus Extra: Update extension name/description to make what the extension does more obvious and therefore more popular. I'm not sure how I found it initially but not everyone would be familiar with mpris. A lot of the other mpris extensions are not compatible with Gnome 43 so the market is up for grabs :-) There is a user review along the same lines:

Features list for discussion (later additions):

• [x] Add tooltips in Settings panel to clarify the purpose of the various settings. (See #22) - included in v11
• [ ] Add (regex) text filtering for labels (See #25)
• [x] Adjust volume with mouse scroll (See #30)

[Batwam]

ok, I managed to find how to control the global volume from the extension and have implemented an option for Source/Global/Off in the Settings. It's working except for Chrome for "active source control" which returns changing mpris volume values just fine and looks like it's working find except that it doesn't actually affect the actual volume, it does nothing...

See #26 for details.

[Moon-0xff]

Closing this. All features of the original list were merged, and even the ones that we discussed later (except #31).
Some discussed features didn't even make it to the list. Some of them might be useful to revisit.

For now, let's focus in fixing the issues and merging #39. We can discuss things later.