[Plasma] To demonstrate the power of Flex Tape…

I sawed this panel in half!

I’ve never seen anyone do this. It seemed like a good idea & it was. It’s very nice. It’s not very fancy besides the split bottom panel & the status bar on the left. I’m using Smart Video Wallpaper Reborn for the wallpaper & the Plasma style, application style, & window decorations are Oxygen. The audio visualizer on the right bottom panel is Panon. The comic is Freefall by Mark Stanley.

Sorry if I formatted this badly, I’m using Mastodon & I’ve never made a Lemmy post.
Original work in progress post

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#KDEPlasma #Linux #FridayDesktop #UnixPorn

    • Allero
      6·
      2 days ago

      +1 for Eternity. Video embedded correctly.

    • Luna Lactea@furry.engineerOP
      2·
      2 days ago

      @Deebster There are two pictures too. I know this is just one of those small differences between ActivityPub servers, but I thought there was some workaround I could do, I just forgot what it was.

      • Deebster@infosec.pub
        1·
        20 hours ago

        Huh, so there is. I’m not 100% on how Voyager works - specifically I think (but don’t know) that it’s got the video because it’s connected to the linked URL (your original post in this case) and pulled down data to make the link preview.

        If that’s right, it means Lemmy isn’t handing the media at all.

          • Deebster@infosec.pubEnglish
            2·
            19 hours ago

            By “linked” I meant that it’s where the URL field of a Lemmy post is pointed at, not the other pages you linked in the post body. Now I’m on a PC again, I see that that link is to the leafy-backgrounded .mp4 (so there’s no chance the embedder would have found the other post images if Lemmy didn’t present them).

            I think the mp4s-not-playing problem is a Mastodon bug/quirk as I’ve seen it before - neither Firefox nor Chrome can play them when navigated to, but both can play embedded and they work when downloaded. From the console logs, it seems to be a problem with the Content Security Policy stopping the rest of the video loading (since browsers only load the first chunk of a video to allow streaming):

            Chrome:

            Refused to load media from ‘https://furry.engineer/system/media_attachments/files/114/090/866/048/236/635/original/897a5752b038f3e3.mp4’ because it violates the following Content Security Policy directive: “default-src ‘none’”. Note that ‘media-src’ was not explicitly set, so ‘default-src’ is used as a fallback.

            Firefox:

            Content-Security-Policy: The page’s settings blocked the loading of a resource (media-src) at https://furry.engineer/system/media_attachments/files/114/090/866/048/236/635/original/897a5752b038f3e3.mp4 because it violates the following directive: “default-src ‘none’”

              • Deebster@infosec.pubEnglish
                1·
                18 hours ago

                I’m not sure how the Mastodon–(ActivityPub)–>Lemmy bit works, but Lemmy doesn’t have a concept of a gallery. The first(?) media is your video, and that’s showing up in Lemmy. I assume it’s dropping the other images since there’s no Lemmy structure to put the other media items into.

                btw, now I’m on Firefox/Win10 with the default Lemmy frontend and I can see that video and play it from Lemmy’s embed, so perhaps most people can see it (as long as they don’t click on the .mp4 link).

  • audaxdreik@pawb.socialEnglish
    6·
    1 day ago

    I have an ultrawide so I like splitting the panels WAY up. It’s just so much wasted space, otherwise. Lumping it all together in the center makes it intrusive again, but pushing everything out to the side and along the bottom are the areas that are most out of focus but still at-a-glance.

    The App Launcher is set to autohide. In order to get this to work, make sure you set the Visibility for the floating panels to “Windows go below”, otherwise it stacks them out on separate rows and looks awful.

    Split panel example

  • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    6·
    1 day ago

    I also use multiple panels here and there. Not the most beautiful but it works for me

    E: another link if first isn’t working

    • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      Idk why my video doesn’t show up where do you guys post videos to embed in comments?

      Edit: Someone else can see the video?? How did i get upvotes if they can’t see the video? Idk

  • krimson@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 day ago

    Nice, you have a lot going on there haha. How is the cpu usage?

    Video plays fine in Boost btw.

    • Luna Lactea@furry.engineerOP
      3·
      1 day ago

      @krimson It’s usually at around 1% unless I do anything, then it might go to 4%. If I record a video with Spectacle it goes up to 11%, but with OBS it only goes to 6%. It only goes up to 75% when doing something very intensive like transcoding a video. I’ve never managed to get it to 100% & I think it thermal throttles before it can. It’s a Ryzen 7700.

  • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    Well that’s certainly interesting. Is there a particular usecase or reason you wanted a setup with a split pannel?

    I’ve had the same issues with “cross-posting” to lemmy, not really sure why additional media doesn’t show up properly 😅

    • Luna Lactea@furry.engineerOP
      4·
      2 days ago

      @Cris_Color I usually tile windows to each half of the screen or each quarter of the screen, which either can’t happen all the way if the bottom panel doesn’t hide or hides the whole bottom panel if it does. This way I can still see the opposite half if one window is tiled on one half. It’s also something weird that I’ve never heard of & I like unique interfaces, even if this one is still pretty close to a common interface.

      • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        Ahhhh, interesting, when using a pannel I never use autohide so I hadn’t considered that

        I also enjoy unique interfaces- thanks for sharing, it’s a neat setup! 😊