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[Jamie Strandboge <jamie@xxxxxxxxxx>]

saviq, just to be explicit, currently this is not exposed via the
indicator (I think that is what you meant by 'meant' :).

kgunn72, I agree-- while from the greeter I can access the sound
indicator, its ease of use for this use case is somewhere between a
passcode-less swipe of the greeter (since I have to do a fine-motor
swipe down as opposed to a general right to left swipe) and having to
enter a passcode in the greeter. I think relying solely on the indicator
would not fully address the use case I described (driving), so
abbreviated events makes sense. I'm not sure what the abbreviated flow
of events would look like, but whatever it is, ideally it wouldn't
require having to do extra precision gestures.

On a related note, right now (ie, going through the greeter to get to
the media player) once I get to the player, I have to do precision taps
to do what I want-- if we are going the indicator route, hopefully we
will have quite large buttons to do this (I can imagine 3: play/pause
toggle, back and forward).

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1260978

Title:
  should be able to control music service from the greeter

Status in Ubuntu UX bugs:
  New
Status in “indicator-sound” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “ubuntu-music-app” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “ubuntu-settings-components” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “unity8” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Not sure what component to file this against-- please reassign as
  desired.

  I use my phone to play music on random while I'm driving. This works
  great except when I want to advance or pause the song, where I have to
  go through the greeter first to access the player. This can either
  take my attention away from driving or I need to wait until the next
  stop light to advance the song. This is less of a concern when the
  greeter can just be swiped with one gesture, but is a big concern if
  you enable the passcode lock where you have to add the passcode to
  access the player.

  If the music is playing, the greeter should allow rudimentary
  manipulation of the music, eg, pause/play and forward/back. Other
  platforms seem to allow for this (eg android).

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