PlayBar: Interesting and useful add-on for our KDE player

What is PlayBar?

Plugins or as they are actually called, plamoids for KDE there are hundreds, thousands.

This time I'll tell you about one called Playbar, a plasmoid that is placed in the KDE bar or panel with certain shortcuts to control the music player:

PlayBar installation:

If you use ArchLinux you have it easy, you install it with this command:

yaourt -S kdeplasma-applets-playbar

If you use any other distro, you simply download the source and compile it:

1. First we download the font:

Download the PlayBar font

2. Then we unzip it, just right click on the file and select Extract here.

3. We must take into account that we need the packages to be able to compile:

sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake automoc kdelibs5-dev

4. Now we enter the folder that was created for us, inside a terminal in it we put the following:

mkdir build && cd build cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX = / usr make sudo make install

5. And voila, it must already be compiled and installed, now it will be necessary to add it to the panel as with any other.

What does PlayBar allow us?

First a quick control of the music player, as we could already see in the previous photo. But also, if we click on the small arrow, a small window will be displayed with information about whatever we are playing:

Also, like almost everything in KDE, it has multiple configuration options:

The end!

I hope it will be you useful.