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Bug 516265 - Keyboard shortcut: Space should act as play/pause when not in search field
Keyboard shortcut: Space should act as play/pause when not in search field
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: rhythmbox
Classification: Other
Component: User Interface
0.11.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: RhythmBox Maintainers
RhythmBox Maintainers
: 673726 770210 779689 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-02-13 16:05 UTC by Kurt Gjerde
Modified: 2018-05-24 13:10 UTC
See Also:
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Description Kurt Gjerde 2008-02-13 16:05:03 UTC 
The space bar should act as a play/pause button. 

Currently Ctrl-Space acts as a play/pause button.
By normal convension Space should act as a play/pause button.
Pressing Space now just starts playing the current track from the beginning. That is, it restarts playing the track.


Other information:
Comment 1 Jonathan Matthew 2008-06-27 13:33:02 UTC 
The space bar only restarts the current track when the track list widget has focus.  This is a gtk+ thing, and I'm not sure we can (or should) override it.

We can't make the space bar an app-wide shortcut for 'play', as you need to be able to type spaces in the search bar and other locations.
Comment 2 Fabio Sasso 2012-06-11 13:07:56 UTC 
space bar should pause and not restart the song, enter does already that.
Comment 3 Nicholas H 2014-10-08 18:16:43 UTC 
If it's a gtk+ thing, then should a bug be filed somewhere else about this? It's a bit of an annoying misfeature.
Comment 4 Nick Jennings 2015-01-02 21:28:43 UTC 
+1
Comment 5 Jonathan Matthew 2015-01-02 21:49:13 UTC 
*** Bug 673726 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Jonathan Matthew 2016-08-21 22:29:26 UTC 
*** Bug 770210 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 André Klapper 2017-03-07 20:48:01 UTC 
*** Bug 779689 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-24 13:10:34 UTC 
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