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applets/mediacontroller: Add playback rate selector

Kai Uwe Broulik requested to merge work/kbroulik/mediaplayer-playbackrate into master
  • applets/mediacontroller: Add playback rate selector

Allows to choose playback rate between 25% and 200% in steps of 25 when the player supports it.

Reason for the change

I found myself using qdbus on the mpris interface a lot to change playback rate when I couldn’t be bothered to use the player UI, e.g. for watching talks and presentations faster. It’s also an accesibility feature.

Test plan

  • Played a YouTube video, was able to change playback speed
  • Playback speed is displayed in the applet
  • If playback speed isn’t in 25% increment, the current value is added to the menu (it is removed once setting a 25% increment value, though)
  • Spotify app, which doesn’t support changing playback rate, hides the control

Screenshots or screen recordings

Screenshot_20250117_160140 Screenshot_20250117_160146

Latest revision uses x instead of percent:

Screenshot_20250117_183218

Horizontal alignment of the speedometer icon is fixed with libplasma!1247 (merged)

Bugs fixed

Didn’t find a request for this on bko

Edited by Kai Uwe Broulik

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