+1 for space bar activating play/pause. Unreliable play/pause is a
showstopper for me. Rhythmbox fails too.
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Title:
Space bar key should always
I figured I'd start with foobar2000 since I'm on Windows at the moment,
but fb2k by default has absolutely no keyboard shortcuts for playback
control; so in that sense it's similar to current Exaile.
It does let you set your own shortcuts, though, including redefining
important keys like Return
Thank you for your thoughtful comments.
I agree that space needs to have a special functionality in certain
places, i.e. in text input boxes. Still, there is a difference between a
key functionality of the player being global with some reasonable
exceptions, and being so heavily affected by
In spotify, the search text box loses focus when you
switch out of the app.
Interesting idea. Where does it move the focus to?
'Jakob's Law of the Web User Experience states that
users spend most of their time on other websites. ...
Right, and desktop app users spend most of their time
My intention was not to repeat what I already said, but to continue on
your thoughts. I am sorry if you found my last post had nothing new to
contribute - I earnestly thought I was adding to the conversation, and
also giving a little taste on the research at the end of my post -
research of
I was not aware you do not welcome critical discussion
about reasoning behind design decisions.
It didn't sound like a critical discussion to me - it sounded like you
pulling more random thoughts about why your opinion is right out of thin
air. There was a LOT of text, and not a lot of it was
Please, do get the facts about user expectations
I'd be interested if there is a study regarding this. Here's my
opinion (expectation):
- in a list box, space bar shouldn't do anything special other than
for Ctrl-selecting;
- in a *video* player, space bar should toggle playback when the
I find it sad that usability defects are regarded as opinion, as if
they were somehow more subjective than functional bugs.
Please, do get the facts about user expectations, and about existing
domain (music player) conventions. What other players do (defining
users' expectations) is just as much
As mathbr said, this isn't something that's trivial to do in GTK+.
Additionally, the space key is used by GTK+ to activate widgets by
default, so users who are used to that function might be confused if we
start overriding this behavior. Furthermore, since text entries are
part the the UI and
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Importance: Undecided = Wishlist
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Status: New = Opinion
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Yeah, I was just being lazy about playback menu. Sorry.
If GTK does not allow the global shortcut, a workable workaround would
then seemingly be to bind space bar press to play/pause in all or most
controls that do not accept keyboard input. Of course, you would
probably need a good
The thing is that this is a restriction of GTK. Key press events in
entries within a window are also triggered on the window itself. So if
we try to toggle pause upon Space key press, you will toggle it also
every time you try to enter a space in one of the entries.
And due to the event
Ah right, I just upgraded to 0.3.2.1 and can confirm that there is a
modality now that allows toggling pause when in playlist. I suggest
removing this modality to conform to the de facto standard, and to the
above usage scenario: have it play/pause regardless of where the focus
is.
At the moment
Can you elaborate more?
Here, when the focus is in the playlist, pressing the spacebar causes
the playback to pause/resume, instead of starting the song from
beginning.
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Title:
Space bar key should always trigger play/pause, like in all other
media players
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