GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 469394
Show media playback popup when no application listening
Last modified: 2011-04-28 16:11:24 UTC
Please add new pop-ups for the playback multi-media keys (Play/Pause, Stop, Next, Previous) similar to that showed for modifying the volume levels. For example: /-------------\ | |\ / | | | | | \ / | | | | | / / | | | | |/ / | | | | | | Play/Pause | \-------------/
You should already be getting feedback about those keys from the application itself. I don't think this is useful to add to gnome-settings-daemon, as it would clash with application-provided OSD as well. Though we could show it when there's no listeners for the signal, that way you'd check that the keys are working.
Now that we can track listeners properly (and remove them automatically if they go away ungracefully), this should be an easy task to achieve. if (manager->priv->media_players == NULL) { show_popup() return; }
As discussed today on #gnome-design, we'd want to have some feedback that keys won't be doing anything, but using something other than the actual icons. Jakub mentioned the (/) icon used in road traffic signs, which DVD players use when you can't skip a portion of the video. It would fit right into it.
Fixed on master. commit 564b3ba94167f1b89f0e895d7930f719c0746b6b Author: Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net> Date: Thu Apr 28 17:09:52 2011 +0100 media-keys: Show a popup when no media player is running So that the user knows that no applications are there to receive the event. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469394