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Bug 709798 - Volume applet should also control media applications through dbus
Volume applet should also control media applications through dbus
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 644302
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: system-status
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-10-10 09:11 UTC by Lee Trager
Modified: 2015-03-18 23:18 UTC
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Description Lee Trager 2013-10-10 09:11:09 UTC 
One of the features I really like in Cinnamon is the ability to not only control my system volume but see information about the music I was playing, have the ability to go forward or back or track, and of course to pause a track. You can see a picture of what I'm talking about here when you scroll down to improved sound applet

http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/?p=207

It looks like they're doing this by monitoring the D-BUS Media Player Remote Interface(http://specifications.freedesktop.org/mpris-spec/latest/).
Comment 1 Lee Trager 2013-10-10 09:17:09 UTC 
BTW, I realize there are existing gnome-shell extensions that do this I just feel it offers a much better out of the box user experience if this was built in.
Comment 2 Florian Müllner 2015-03-18 23:18:54 UTC 
Thanks for taking the time to report this.
This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 644302 ***