VisualDesign canceled: [Bug 350578] media controller: no stop

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Thomas Pfeiffer <colomar at autistici.org> has canceled  VisualDesign:
Bug 350578: media controller: no stop
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=350578



--- Comment #1 from Thomas Pfeiffer <colomar at autistici.org> ---
(not exactly a visual design issue, but certainly a usability issue)

The Mediacontroller Plasmoid is used for quick access to a media player, to
quickly skip to the next track if you don't like the one playing, or the
previous one if you liked it so much you want to hear it again, or to quickly
pause if e.g. the phone rings and then unpause again.

Stopping as opposed to pausing was important for cassette or optical disc
players because they continued to consume energy in pause mode, but for a
digital media player, this is not the case. Therefore, the usecases for stop
are pretty rare in a digital player (for example if you take a longer break
form listening and afterwards would like to resume the track from the
beginning).
These usecases can well be served from within the player's main UI.
Even many players (e.g. Amarok) do not have a stop button in their main UI by
default anymore, so if even they don't have it, why would a quick-access
Plasmoid with only the most important features have it?

Stop may seem like an important function if you're still used to using it, but
if they don't have it easily accessible, most users realize sooner rather than
later that they don't actually need it all that often. So, the media controller
Plasmoid is not the right place for it.