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Originally Posted by Android_808

is omp able to play streams piped from stdout?

Originally Posted by freemangordon

@gidzzz - there is a long standing "feature" in OMP - trying to change the language while in playlist search mode (songs, etc) brings plyback window. That feature comes from https://gitorious.org/qt-mediaplayer...icator.cpp#L76

Now, my understanding is that no application should override system shortcuts unless really needed. Which is not the case here IMO.

Originally Posted by gidzzz

I can't see anything wrong with language switching on my device. I did a few tests in the music window:
[*]Search bar hidden -> Ctrl+Space opens Now Playing.

...[*]Search bar visible, but not focused -> Ctrl+Space does nothing.

Am I misunderstanding something? Or where could the difference be coming from?

Originally Posted by freemangordon

Open Contacts for example, input language can be switched *before* you've typed anything. And that is more logical than OMP's behaviour, where you have to type something, switch the language, then clear what you've typed, then type again.

Not to say that a system-wide shortcut should not be overtaken by an application unless really needed. I don't see why OMP needs exactly ctrl-space for opening the "Now Playing" window. That one could be shift-space, shift-enter or ctrl-enter as well(or some other combo), without breaking language switching capability.

Originally Posted by freemangordon

The difference comes from the fact that OMP explicitly defines ctrl-space as application shortcut (see the link I posted in my previous post)

Originally Posted by gidzzz

Now I see what you mean, but I wouldn't call it "overtaking" or "breaking something", as Contacts seems to be an exception here. Even Calendar, where pressing a letter key opens "New event" window with that letter typed, does not allow to change the input language unless an input field has the focus, let alone applications such as MicroB, the PDF viewer, or the stock media player.

I think the difference comes from the fact that an application itself has to implement that behavior.

For example, Ctrl+Space does nothing in Hamster Filer or cuteTube.

That said, it is not just a matter of changing the shortcut, but also adding a new shortcut (although that should be pretty painless, as most windows share a custom common base class).
{Ctrl,Shift}+Enter are used for menus. I prefer most shortcuts with Ctrl rather than Shift, so I'd rather have Ctrl+P than Shift+Space. If there are no hard objections or better ideas, I think I can change all instances of Ctrl+Space to Ctrl+P (see http://wiki.maemo.org/Open_Media_Player#Controls for the list of affected contexts)

and assign Ctrl+Space to toggle input language in most windows, of course provided I can find out how to do that (it doesn't look like it's as simple as calling something over D-Bus, any hints?).

But doesn't that sound like a job for Qt, not individual applications?

Originally Posted by mr_pingu

You should try with default mediaplayer, it only starts and stops playing: The ctrl button is fully ignored as normal space does the same!

Originally Posted by mr_pingu

...But, it's a non-existing real requirement as even the default player has not that behaviour and if you look at Gidzzz list, there are even more default application that dont follow that rule.