Hi Peter, when I raised this issue, the rationale behind it was to be able to control the music from my pocket without having to take the smartphone out of my pocket. This is the method I use in the bus with my current Android phone for instance, and it's incredibly useful.
Shaking the phone is, in my humble opinion, a very bad idea. Plus, my request is for the long press to be globally recognized, i.e. no matter the phone screen is off or not. If we apply a gesture, that means your playlist would randomly go to next/previous track as you walk... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pulseaudio in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1493722 Title: [Media services] Volume up/down long press should skip to next/previous track Status in Canonical System Image: Confirmed Status in Media Hub: Invalid Status in Ubuntu Music App: New Status in Ubuntu UX: Triaged Status in pulseaudio package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: A handy feature of music players is the ability to quickly skip tracks by long-pressing the volume buttons. This allows users to control their music without having to take the device out of their pocket, turn its screen on, unlock it, go to the music app and press "Next". As of now, when I long press the volume button, it rapidly increases the volume, which is not very nice to my ears ;-) Is it possible to control the music app this way on Ubuntu phone? Music app version tested: 2.2.910 (2015-09-03) Device: Meizu MX 4 System info: Ubuntu 15.04 (r4) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1493722/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
