There is a new Speaker Icon with Plasma 6.3 introduced.
How can i disable that useless icon’s for my Tasks, i dont want to see which tasks playing sound or not.
The solution to get rid of it I found when I noticed the damn thing, from my install notes.
Remove speaker icon in taskbar on applications.
https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1isv84l/plasma_63_taskbar_audio_indicator_fix/
In /usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.taskmanager/contents/ui/AudioStream.qml
Change the change opacity: 1 to opacity: 0 on line 38 in Start section. New login required.
Worked perfectly.
Edit: and you need to do it every time the plasma-desktop-data package it is in Debian gets updated. Which contains that file in it who knows where it is located in other distros do not use them.
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Thank you so much for that info, it worked for my Distro (Manjaro/KDE).
You are welcome good to see you get it sorted like I did with that. I would not mind if it was on the actual app playing the sound but there is no way in hell my file manager is playing the sound. It is the program that sent the file to the video player to play the actual sound and video, there is absolutely no reason to see a speaker icon on it so I will/can do without that “feature”.
The following bug report, and corresponding commit, may be relevant here: 499891 – Allow hiding the Task Manager "audio playing" icons again
In short, the options around that indicator will be handled differently in Plasma 6.4, including restoring the ability to totally disable it.