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[Bug 1087186] Re: "play" when rb is not running should not popup its window

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From: Lars Uebernickel <lars.uebernickel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 21:39:19 -0000
Reply-to: Bug 1087186 <1087186@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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This is impossible to implement with the current MPRIS spec. When the
player is not running, all we can do is start it via its desktop file.
There's no way to tell it to start playing without showing its main
window.

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Title:
  "play" when rb is not running should not popup its window

Status in Sound Menu:
  New
Status in “indicator-sound” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Currently the "play" button is sound indicator is inconsistent. There
  is a confusion between music being a background service, or a
  traditional app. See for example those steps:

  1) (rb is not yet running) click play in indicator, rb window popup and start playing
  2) close the rb window, music is still playing, so I would consider music to be a service independent from its UI (even if technically it's not true)
  3) I pause the music (now I'm conceptually in the same state than when I started the session, I'm not supposed to know that rb is actually still running)
  4) click "play" again, it start playing but does not popup window

  I think it 1) and 4) the same thing should happen. Either popup window
  in both cases, or don't.

  I personally would prefer window not poping in step 1.

  Related to this, taping the "play" multimedia key should have the same
  effect. This is https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687831

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: indicator-sound 12.10.1-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-19.30-generic 3.5.7
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-19-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Dec  6 10:44:51 2012
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-09-29 (67 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Beta amd64 (20120929)
  MarkForUpload: True
  SourcePackage: indicator-sound
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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