How to create a super-minimalistic play/pause #Plasmoid button in #KDE #Plasma for your desktop/panel/whatever:

1) Install playerctl from your OS's repos
2) Install the "Command Output" plasmoid in Plasma
3) "Configure Command Output..."
4) Create the plasmoid in the location and size you want
5) Use this as the command: playerctl status |sed 's/Paused/ ▶️/; s/Playing/⏸️/'
6) Run every 1000 ms, or less if you want it to be more responsive
7) Under "Appearance," increase the font size to 40px or so (you can adjust for your liking)
8) Under "Actions,", use this as the "Run Command:" playerctl -a play-pause

PRESTO! :D

Way smaller and more intuitive than the native media playback control plasmoid.

🚀 KCast now speaks your language!

The latest release adds multi-language support
Available translations:
🇩🇪 German
🇳🇱 Dutch (thanks to Vistaus Heimen Stoffels!)
🇫🇷 French
🇪🇸 Spanish
🇷🇺 Russian

More to come. Feedback and contributions are welcome!
Project: https://github.com/Agundur-KDE/KCast
Homepage: https://www.agundur.de/

#KDE #Plasmoid #OpenSource #KCast

KCast v0.2.0 released!

KCast is a KDE Plasma widget to cast local media files to your Chromecast devices – now with internationalization support!

🆕 Version 0.2.0 highlights:

- New “Open” button for quick file selection

-Config option for default Chromecast device

-Translation support added (EN 🇬🇧 + DE 🇩🇪)

Internal cleanup and improved integration

Get it: https://github.com/Agundur-KDE/KCast
💬 I'd love to hear what you think!

#KDE #Plasmoid #Chromecast #KCast #FOSS #Linux

Just launched: https://www.agundur.de/

After months of developing KDE Plasmoids, web tools and infrastructure projects, I’m excited to unveil my new homepage – a central hub for my open-source work, upcoming releases, and services around:

-KDE / Qt Development
-Custom Web Applications
-GEO – Generative Engine Optimization

Built with performance, clarity, and modern web tech in mind.
Feedback welcome

#KDE #Plasmoid #Qt #SEO #OpenSource #FOSS #WebDev #Linux #GEO #Agundur

I've started a portable desktop widget host project out of spite: https://codeberg.org/Taffer/thoth

Going to be a very long while before it's useful, I think, because I have no idea what I'm doing with Electron/Node, and I'm not a fan of JavaScript. I should be able to get a super-basic Hello World type thing going pretty quickly though, since the Electron tutorials actually work.

#thoth #electron #widget #plasmoid #desklet

My quest to have the perfect (ha!) desktop continues; I've been looking into making Cinnamon desktop widgets ("Desklets").

Instead of having out of date documentation like KDE Plasma 6, there's just no documentation. 🤷

Maybe if I hit the lottery this week I'll quit my day job, reverse engineer these desktop widget systems, and write up to date docs and tutorials. 😛

Rainmeter might be the Windows app I miss most, somehow.

#cinnamon #desklet #plasma6 #kde6 #plasmoid #rainmeter