Haruna: it is awesome! But where is my queue?

I used Celluloid before and I dont like the GTK UI but it worked great.

In Haruna, the stuff I needed to find out online was accessible via the GUI!

  • change arrow up down to volume
  • change volume steps to 1 instead of 5

There is so much great stuff but I have some fundamental issues:

The queue not working?

I use the Flatpak and have any static filesystem permissions removed, which should not be an issue.

In the settings I enabled

  • only open a single instance
  • queue all additionally opened files

But when opening 2 files there is no queue to be found, and skipping to the end just repeats the movie.

Subtitles not showing

Double subtitles are cool and all, but none show? In Celluloid, same movie mkv file, they work normally.

Also the dropdown menu is extremely buggy, never had this in a Qt app.

The interface

There are manu bars in the way that are not removable. This is pretty annoying, especially as some things are duplicates.


I would like to switch to Haruna, but for the time being Celluloid works better.

still no update on this?

the subtitles now seem to work, maybe this was only the case with .sub subtitles

but the inability to open multiple files is a dealbreaker

I will open a bug about this

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=500659

Can’t even get the flatpak to run. Well, maybe I could if the QT override would properly work, but it doesn’t. So, with a specific application style, regardless of the settings, it looks like:

Anywhoo, haruna is way to limited to my taste and smplayer has been my go-to since the dawn of times. If you can’t do it with this player, it doesn’t exist so to speak. It has tons of options that is.

And um…it’s a far better option than celluloid imo ( for the time being?)
Just sayin’.

Little update: I tried the latest flatpak and actually got it to work properly.
What bothered me with the flatpak version is it only supports four colorschemes and since flatpak in kvantum override still is a hit or miss I had to run it in Breeze dark ( the horror). I like my media players in dark…always. But then I thought, why not put the wanted colorscheme in the rc? And voila. Why didn’t I think of it before ?!!

Still…too limited for my daily use though.

So you were able to highlight multiple files in dolphin, open with Haruna and they get added to the queue?

I guess I can open files FROM haruna but not what I want

That doesn’t work in haruna. There’s no queue option either. If you want that you’ll need haruna to use some mpv lua. Currently there’s no way to choose separate files and load them as such in a playlist style without haruna loading all the media files in the directory. No, unless I missed something ( doubt it) you’ll need an mpv script. Haruna is one of those few players that doesn’t have the option ( yet?) to select&play or enqueue.

Oh, and btw…if you have haruna as flatpak I believe it won’t even do mpv scripts/configs.

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I believe someone posted recently with a similar question. It would require to select files to a playlist, kill the active playlist, shuffle and some…Only possible with mpv integration.

I’m fairly convinced that haruna will have those features in a near future, but now;…

To nag about smplayer again…that one does have the options. Enqueue to an existing playlist. Select several and open those as playlist-ish or select one which will also show the other files in the directory.

On top of that, it also supports mpv configs. ( and radio, tv… :grin:)

I use Celluloid which has a working queue. And a Flatpak.

so no SMplayer for me

thanks for your inputs