Make play/pause indicators configurable

[fwcd]

The player currently displays the 'play icon' when a song is playing and the 'pause icon' when it's not playing. Since most traditional audio player GUIs do this the other way around, is there a specific reason for the current way?

[hrkfdn]

Hmm, I'm not sure about this one. It's more of a playback status indicator than a button, that's why it's the way it currently is. I think if it were a button to toggle playback, it would make sense to reverse the icons, but in this case it seems rather counterintuitive to me. Any other thoughts?

[JojiiOfficial]

I personally see it as button, even though I use 'P' to toggle playback. As @fwcd already pointed out, most audio player GUIs treat it as button and I think this point of view is preserved while using ncspot (at least in my case). In addition you can click the icon with the mouse to toggle playback as well. I was kinda confused the first time I used ncspot why the indicator status was inverted.

[codicodi]

It seems unintuitive to me as well (especially since I also use a custom MPRIS widget that always shows the opposite of what ncspot does). Maybe icons could be made configurable, similar to how colors are?

[ClashTheBunny]

I do have to look at the time tick when I don't hear anything because it's not intuitive to me.

[AndydeCleyre]

Ha, I came here looking for the opposite bug.

I had no idea that was a button, so was sure it was a bug, showing the pause icon while the state is playing, as I considered the widget to be just like the shuffle icon, which shows a shuffle symbol when the state is shuffle.

So now I try clicking the shuffle icon (and elsewhere), and realize that the whole status bar is one big play/pause button.

So that little indicator, to me, is not a button, but an indicator, that happens to reside within a large toggle button.

I would appreciate an option to have the indicator show the current state again, rather than the opposite of the current state.

[BachoSeven]

https://xkcd.com/1172/ /s

[hrkfdn]

Haha, I feared this would happen 😄 It was meant to be an indicator actually. Maybe making it configurable is a good idea.

[hrkfdn]

Okay, I have reverted to the old behaviour and made this a configurable setting.

[fwcd]

While I would argue that defaulting to the flipped version would be more intuitive for people used to traditional, button-style UIs, having it configurable is definitely nice and should make everyone happy 👍

[hrkfdn]

Yeah, I was kind of on the fence about this since I got reports from both camps, making it rather hard to decide. For me it's the other way round, coming from ncmpc which prints Playing: track title and as it was like this before as well, I reverted the change. Hope that's okay. Anyway, now people can decide for themselves. Thanks everyone!