This applet for the KDE Plasma desktop allows to reproduce ambient noise. Multiple noise components can be combined, controlling their individual volume. The applet reads noise files and their icons from a given, customisable folder. The noise and the icon must be in the same folder and share the same name, except for the file extension.
The plasmoid remembers its state across reboots, including play/pause status, volume, and active noise components. To prevent it from playing sound at start-up, even if it was still playing at the time of the last shutdown, go to the plasmoid settings and tick "Paused at start-up".
Free noises in a ready-to-use format for this plasmoid can be found in the anoise project.
The applet can be installed locally with
git clone https://github.com/m-pilia/plasma-applet-ambientnoise
cd plasma-applet-ambientnoise/
kpackagetool6 -t Plasma/Applet --install plasmoid
or globally with
git clone https://github.com/m-pilia/plasma-applet-ambientnoise
cd plasma-applet-ambientnoise/
mkdir build
cmake . -B build
cmake --build build
sudo cmake --install build
To see the plasmoid, you may need to restart plasmashell
kquitapp6 plasmashell
kstart plasmashell
Questions, bug reports, and feature requests are welcome. Feel free to open an issue on GitHub.
New translations are welcome. Translation files are located in the translations folder. To add a new translation:
plasma_applet_org.kde.plasma.ambientnoise.pot
to
plasma_applet_org.kde.plasma.ambientnoise_XX.po
(where XX
is the ISO 639-1
code for the
language you are adding).plasmoid/metadata.desktop
as follows, next to the corresponding pre-existing lines (once again, XX
represents the ISO code of the new language):
Name[XX]=...
filled with a translation of the name;Comment[XX]=...
filled with a translation of the comment.In case something seems not to be working, launch the plasmoid in debug mode
from a console, with plasmoidviewer -a org.kde.plasma.ambientnoise
or
plasmawindowed org.kde.plasma.ambientnoise
, and look for relevant log
messages. Especially when it comes to audio playback, most of the troubles come
from bad configuration of the multimedia back-end.
The project is licensed under GPL 3. See LICENSE file for the full license.