diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 7151741a7..b1cba2009 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8.12)
 find_package(ECM 0.0.9 REQUIRED NO_MODULE)
 set(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH ${ECM_MODULE_PATH} ${ECM_KDE_MODULE_DIR} ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake)
 
-find_package(Qt5 5.2 REQUIRED COMPONENTS Quick Gui)
+find_package(Qt5 5.2 REQUIRED COMPONENTS Quick)
 find_package(KF5 REQUIRED COMPONENTS I18n ConfigWidgets DBusAddons)
 find_package(KF5DocTools)
 find_package(Qca-qt5 2.1.0 REQUIRED)
diff --git a/plugins/mpriscontrol/CMakeLists.txt b/plugins/mpriscontrol/CMakeLists.txt
index fb5239535..5203f1f19 100644
--- a/plugins/mpriscontrol/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/plugins/mpriscontrol/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -16,4 +16,4 @@ qt5_add_dbus_interface(
 
 kdeconnect_add_plugin(kdeconnect_mpriscontrol JSON kdeconnect_mpriscontrol.json SOURCES  ${kdeconnect_mpriscontrol_SRCS})
 
-target_link_libraries(kdeconnect_mpriscontrol Qt5::DBus kdeconnectcore Qt5::Gui)
+target_link_libraries(kdeconnect_mpriscontrol Qt5::DBus kdeconnectcore)
diff --git a/plugins/mpriscontrol/mpriscontrolplugin.cpp b/plugins/mpriscontrol/mpriscontrolplugin.cpp
index 39777196f..6266b4a03 100644
--- a/plugins/mpriscontrol/mpriscontrolplugin.cpp
+++ b/plugins/mpriscontrol/mpriscontrolplugin.cpp
@@ -28,10 +28,6 @@
 #include <QDBusMessage>
 #include <QDBusServiceWatcher>
 
-#include <QImage>
-#include <QBuffer>
-#include <QByteArray>
-
 #include <KPluginFactory>
 
 #include <core/device.h>
@@ -142,32 +138,6 @@ void MprisControlPlugin::propertiesChanged(const QString& propertyInterface, con
             }
             somethingToSend = true;
         }
-        if (nowPlayingMap.contains(QStringLiteral("mpris:artUrl"))) {
-            const QUrl artUrl(nowPlayingMap[QStringLiteral("mpris:artUrl")].toString());
-
-            /*
-             * We only handle images stored locally right now but it should be easy
-             * enough to download remote images and send them.
-             */
-            const int artMaxWidth = 512;
-            const int artMaxHeight = 512;
-            if (artUrl.isLocalFile()) {
-                QImage artImage(artUrl.path());
-
-                // Scale the image to a sane size
-                artImage = artImage.scaled({artMaxWidth, artMaxHeight}, Qt::KeepAspectRatio, Qt::SmoothTransformation);
-
-                QByteArray imageBufferArray;
-                QBuffer imageBuffer(&imageBufferArray);
-                imageBuffer.open(QIODevice::WriteOnly);
-                artImage.save(&imageBuffer, "PNG");
-
-                const QString base64Image = QString::fromLatin1(imageBufferArray.toBase64());
-                np.set(QStringLiteral("artImage"), base64Image);
-                somethingToSend = true;
-            }
-
-        }
 
     }
     if (properties.contains(QStringLiteral("PlaybackStatus"))) {