Media Controls Changelog

What's new in Media Controls 2.0.1

Apr 18, 2024
  • GNOME 46 support

New in Media Controls 2.0.0 (Jan 17, 2024)

  • The extension has been rewritten to be more performant and easy to add new features
  • Scrolling text and sliders are now animated instead of being updated through a interval
  • Source menu and track info menu has been merged into one menu
  • Control buttons will now disable themselves if the player does not support the specific functionality
  • Better logic to find the matching app of an mpris player (icons, names, etc)
  • Properly displays album art with aspect ratios other than 1:1
  • New preferences UI
  • Ability to customize the label text in the panel even more
  • and many more small quality of life improvements...

New in Media Controls 2.0.0 Beta 3 (Jan 11, 2024)

  • Bug fixes
  • Added album name in menu

New in Media Controls 2.0.0 Beta 2 (Jan 5, 2024)

  • The extension will poll until mpris properties are populated with valid values when a player is initialized. (Due some players having broken mpris implementations)
  • Slider in the popup menu will properly disable if the player does not support seeking
  • Now any album art aspect ratio is supported.
  • Better logic in selecting an active player

New in Media Controls 2.0.0 Beta 1 (Jan 5, 2024)

  • Merged source menu and popup menu (with new design)
  • Updated preferences to use user friendly widgets
  • Removed unnecessary and redundant preferences (if you miss a removed preference, feel free to open an issue)
  • The codebase has been ported to typescript
  • The code logic has been rewritten to be more straightforward

New in Media Controls 31 (Dec 15, 2023)

  • Added album name support
  • Bug fixes

New in Media Controls 30 (Nov 21, 2023)

  • WHAT'S CHANGED:
  • Set touch event to TOUCH_END by @Thesola10 in #103
  • Do not destroy objects on disable by @Thesola10 in #104
  • Fixed #35 (title doesnt disappear after closing the media source in chromium based browsers)
  • NEW CONTRIBUTORS:
  • @Thesola10 made their first contribution in #103

New in Media Controls 28 (Oct 25, 2023)

  • Added seek slider #33
  • Volume controls in mouse actions #71
  • Fixed flatpak player icons not being displayed properly #47
  • Basic touchscreen support #88
  • Better max width handling #65
  • Properly handle hiding default media notification #97
  • Scrolling label in the panel #58

New in Media Controls 27 (Oct 16, 2023)

  • JS ERROR: Error: Failed to save icon.

New in Media Controls 26 (Oct 16, 2023)

  • Issue #75
  • Fixed more errors found by linter
  • Issue #92
  • screenshots from settings
  • Moved screenshots to the very bottom
  • Issue #59
  • Update README.md
  • File caching fixed
  • changes for re-review
  • Merge branch 'main' with changes made for rereview
  • bumped version to 26

New in Media Controls 24 (Apr 23, 2023)

  • Gnome 42+ support

New in Media Controls 20 (Feb 7, 2023)

  • Added the ability to hide players maunally.
  • Added option to hide the media message in the notification menu.
  • Support for GNOME 41 and GNOME 3.36 (#28 )