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ebruck / radiotray-ng

An Internet radio player for Linux
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Show title/artist persistently in tray next to app icon? #212

Closed thebordella closed 8 months ago

thebordella commented 9 months ago

Amazing - finally found the radio player I want for Linux. Simple, unobstrusive, easily accessible. I compiled source for Ubuntu 23.10 and it works great. But...

Is there any way to show the title/artist not just in the dropdown menu but in the tray area itself, so it is always visible? I have plenty of horizontal real estate available. What would be the best way to go about this? Through the source code? Some kind of dbus scripting? Would be a great enhancement to an otherwise excellent app. Thanks!

ebruck commented 9 months ago

@thebordella it certainly can be done. Here's a quick hack:

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I'll have to play around with it some more to properly add updates/blanking etc. I'll probably add a configurable max length to prevent it from being WAY too long.

thebordella commented 9 months ago

@ebruck

Thanks for the quick reply - those 'quick hacks' look great! Exactly what I had in mind. I'll look out for an update or patch to the source...

ebruck commented 9 months ago

@thebordella please checkout my v0.2.9-dev branch which has this new feature.

There are three new config entries for it. Please see the README.md file for defaults etc. Also, do not edit the config while radiotray-ng is running or you will lose your changes.

Please let me know how it works for you and if you find any bugs.

thebordella commented 9 months ago

@ebruck This is great! I built the 0.2.9-dev branch and it works exactly as described. One small question - what controls the color of the artist/title text in the tray? On my system that text is black although the other items in my tray are an off-white.

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ebruck commented 9 months ago

In Gnome I believe it's controlled by the theme you are using. It appears you may be using KDE? If so then it may be that the the appindicator support is not quite complete. I've seen this before. #159, #68

thebordella commented 9 months ago

@ebruck Thanks. My screenshot is actually from Ubuntu Budgie, which I believe is based on Gnome. I can experiment with theme settings. Definitely not a big deal!