I can't believe this hasn't been fixed yet. Other music player apps (e.g. Spotify) use space for pause without apparent issue. The space bar is the largest affordance on a keyboard and play/pause is the most common action in a music player (and often the one with most urgency attached), so it makes sense to use it in this way. As things are currently (v3.4.4, October 2022), I can't even use tab to select the play/pause button, so the argument about accessibility appears spurious in practice.
At the very least, there could be a preferences option to enable play/pause on space. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to rhythmbox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/185928 Title: Pressing Space key should toggle play/pause (pause when playing; play when paused) Status in One Hundred Papercuts: Invalid Status in Rhythmbox: Invalid Status in Totem: Invalid Status in rhythmbox package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: Binary package hint: rhythmbox 1. Linux tavla 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Dec 18 08:02:57 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=7.10 DISTRIB_CODENAME=gutsy DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 7.10" 2. rhythmbox 0.11.2-0ubuntu4 3. Pressing Space, Rhythmbox starts playing the current track from the beginning. That is, it restarts playing the track. By normal convension Space should act as a play/pause button. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/185928/+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
