Bug#371837: totem: No Stop button

[Roland Mas]

Package: totem
Version: 1.4.1-2
Severity: normal

Here's a usability bug that's bitten me enough times: there's no Stop
button in Totem.  Apparently the rationale is that the Pause button
"should be enough for everyone", but it isn't.  I can think of two use
cases where the Pause button isn't enough (apart from the obvious
"where the heck is the stop button?" question, which goes against the
principle of least astonishment).

* When pausing an audio track, unpausing it makes the music start
again right in the middle of a song, which is now always what I want.
I do like to use Pause sometimes, but when I go away for tea and come
back to my computer, I like my song to start playing from the start.
I'd need a Stop button for that.

* When playing an audio stream and pausing it, the connection is kept
open.  The buffer eventually fills up, of course, and the connection
is eventually dropped (presumably by the server).  So when I unpause
Totem when coming back from lunch, I only get a few seconds worth of
sound, then an error occurs and I get a pop-up window telling me that
"An error occurred / Could not read from resource.", and I have to go
back to Totem to restart playing.  Of course, a Stop button would have
cleanly interrupted the connection, and Play would have restarted it
again.

Roland.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-k7
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages totem depends on:
ii  totem-gstreamer               1.4.1-2    A simple media player for the Gnom

totem recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
* totem/thumbnailer: true