added a lil' fella

quickshell/services/NowPlayingService.qml

@@ -20,14 +20,23 @@ Item {
                     root.artist = "";
                     root.title = "";
                     root.artUrl = "";
-                    root.isPlaying = false;
                     return;
                 }
                 var parts = text.split("|||");
                 root.artist = parts[0] || "";
                 root.title = parts[1] || "";
                 root.artUrl = parts[2] || "";
-                root.isPlaying = (parts[3] || "").trim() === "Playing";
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    Process {
+        id: playerCtlPlayingProc
+        command: ["playerctl", "status"]
+        stdout: StdioCollector {
+            onStreamFinished: {
+                var status = this.text.trim();
+                root.isPlaying = (status === "Playing");
             }
         }
     }
@@ -39,5 +48,12 @@ Item {
         onTriggered: playerctlProc.running = true
     }
 
+    Timer {
+        interval: 1000
+        running: true
+        repeat: true
+        onTriggered: playerCtlPlayingProc.running = true
+    }
+
     Component.onCompleted: playerctlProc.running = true
 }

quickshell/shell.qml

@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ ShellRoot {
                 nowPlayingArtist: nowPlayingService.artist
                 nowPlayingTitle: nowPlayingService.title
                 nowPlayingArtUrl: nowPlayingService.artUrl
+                nowPlaying: nowPlayingService.isPlaying
             }
         }
     }

quickshell/ui/NowPlaying.qml

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Row {
     property string artist: ""
     property string title: ""
     property string artUrl: ""
+    property bool isPlaying: false
     property int maxTextLength: 50
 
     property int numBands: 32
@@ -20,9 +21,20 @@ Row {
         return fullText.length > maxTextLength ? fullText.substring(0, maxTextLength - 3) + "..." : fullText;
     }
 
+    property string dancingLeft: "└(ಠ_ಠ )┐"
+    property string dancingRight: "┌( ಠ_ಠ)┘"
+    property string notDancing: "(ಠ ∩ ಠ)"
+
     visible: title !== ""
     spacing: 6
 
+    Text {
+        id: littleFella
+        text: root.dancingLeft
+        color: Colors.md3.primary
+        anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
+    }
+
     //TODO add service that reads the data from cava
     // the fifo buffer is in /tmp/cava.fifo. Example data is:
     // 5;3;3;3;2;1;1;3;6;18;42;16;6;6;1;1;2;6;2;3;6;6;5;11;11;12;13;66;4;4;24;2;2;24;4;4;66;13;12;11;11;5;6;6;3;2;3;2;1;1;6;6;16;42;19;5;2;1;1;2;3;4;3;7;
@@ -47,11 +59,24 @@ Row {
         // z: 1
     }
 
-    Item {
+    Timer {
-        id: titleArea
+        interval: 400
-        anchors.bottom: parent.bottom
+        running: true
-        width: titleText.implicitWidth
+        repeat: true
-        height: Math.max(titleText.implicitHeight, visualizer.height)
+        onTriggered: {
+            if (root.isPlaying) {
+                littleFella.text = littleFella.text === root.dancingLeft ? root.dancingRight : root.dancingLeft;
+            } else {
+                littleFella.text = root.notDancing;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    // Item {
+    //     id: titleArea
+    //     anchors.bottom: parent.bottom
+    //     width: titleText.implicitWidth
+    //     height: Math.max(titleText.implicitHeight, visualizer.height)
 
         // Canvas {
         //     id: visualizer
@@ -133,7 +158,7 @@ Row {
         //         }
         //     }
         // }
-    }
+    // }
 
     // CavaService {
     //     id: cavaService

quickshell/ui/TopBar.qml

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ Item {
     property string nowPlayingArtist: ""
     property string nowPlayingTitle: ""
     property string nowPlayingArtUrl: ""
+    property bool nowPlaying: false
 
     RowLayout {
         anchors.fill: parent
@@ -44,6 +45,7 @@ Item {
             artist: root.nowPlayingArtist
             title: root.nowPlayingTitle
             artUrl: root.nowPlayingArtUrl
+            isPlaying: root.nowPlaying
             Layout.fillHeight: true
             Layout.alignment: Qt.AlignBottom
         }