Change Play/Pause Button Display

R101

Is there a simple way to change the display of the play/pause button so that you press a pause symbol to pause, and a play symbol to continue playing?

The Rune default (press play to pause/press pause to play) has always seemed wrong to me.

rern

They are toggle buttons + status.

Buttuns

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Toggle buttons

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But if you preferred:

# if RuneUI Enhancement installed:
sed -i -e 's/fa-play\(.*addClass.*\)pause/fa-pause\1play/
' -e '0,/pause.*addClass.*play/ s/pause\(.*addClass.*\)play/play\1pause/
' /srv/http/assets/js/custom.js

# No RuneUI Enhancement
sed -i -e 's/fa-play\(.*addClass.*\)pause/fa-pause\1play/
' -e '0,/pause.*addClass.*play/ s/pause\(.*addClass.*\)play/play\1pause/
' /srv/http/assets/js/runeui.js

sed -i -e 's/fa-play\(.*addClass.*\)pause/fa-pause\1play/
s/pause\(.*addClass.*\)play/play\1pause/
' /srv/http/assets/js/runeui.min.js

If it confuses many people, may be I should make an addon.

janui

Hi R101 & rern,
I would also prefer it to be displayed as R101 suggests.
It's not so much confusing, but it is inconsistent with most other players (youtube, spotify, etc., etc.).
janui

R101

Hi rern,

I don't understand much of your post, but I entered the command and it seems to work perfectly.

Thanks greatly for this: the unconventional display has bothered me ever since I started using Rune, and I cannot see any reason why your modification should not be the default, rather than an addon.

rern

Hi R101,

If there were 2 separated buttons of play and pause, button that was press would lit up to show current status. When they're combined into a toggle, we have to choose to show status or function of it.

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By the way, RuneUI Enhancement let you use touch gestures for all 5 controls. You should try top-bottom menu hiding and the buttons won't bother you anymore.

ACX

Since this seems a lot a matter of preference, I'm thinking in making this behaviour configurable in 2.0

R101

If there were 2 separated buttons of play and pause, button that was press would lit up to show current status. When they're combined into a toggle, we have to choose to show status or function of it.

I see your point, rern. Two buttons without any light, or three buttons plus the light would both look OK to me, but I do like to have the buttons on the screen. Perhaps, as Andrea says, having it configurable would be best.

R101

OK, after thinking about it, I vote for 3 buttons!

gcogger

Just to add another data point, and this is strictly my own opinion...
I agree with the posters above. The current way (buttons show the state, not what the button does) is different to all the other software I've used, and confuses me every time I come back to Rune if I haven't used it for a while. I have to explain it to my wife pretty much every time she uses Rune. I genuinely thought it was a bug in the software, rather than deliberate behaviour!

ceejayemm

Configurable is always best to suit everybody but three buttons for me please. Also is there any way to make the buttons bigger - big fingers on a small touch (7in) screen leads to multiple buttons being pressed at the same time

Chris

rern

gcogger wrote ... I have to explain it to my wife pretty much every time she uses Rune. ...

Now it's officially a serious issue. This can lead to unpredictable situations.
I think I'll add a separated pause button to RuneUI Enhancement in the next update.

gcogger

rern wrote
gcogger wrote ... I have to explain it to my wife pretty much every time she uses Rune. ...
Now it's officially a serious issue. This can lead to unpredictable situations.
I think I'll add a separated pause button to RuneUI Enhancement in the next update.

rern

Now you can set it to your liking in RuneUI Enhancement.
A new item in show/hide setting.

R101

Thanks rern, that is a terrific improvement. There is a bug, though. When displayed on a 7" Android tablet, the "next" button is below the others.

andfor

Hi rern,

Is there a way to implement this without installing all of the UI enhancements for those of us that have modified the UI in various ways ourselves? I've had a quick look at the GIthub page, but I'm either blind or not technically-proficient enough to understand what's happening.

Many thanks for all your hard work on this and other improvements.

rern

@[deleted],

You got it.

RuneUI Pause Button addon:

- RuneUI enhancement not installed > available in the list
- RuneUI Enhancement installed > hidden from the list
- install RuneUI Enhancement later > automatically remove it (use the included one)

Show-hide conditions and automatically removing conflict addons are new features of Addons Menu.

andfor

That, good Sir, is most excellent.

You are a gentleman.

Many thanks.

R101

Hi rern,

I have discovered some problems using this enhancement with my 1024x600 Android tablet. I am not sure if they are all caused by this enhancement, as I do not normally hide the top/bottom menus.

With 3 button display selected, the "next track" button floats below the other 4 when the tablet is in portrait mode. Landscape mode looks the same until the browser is refreshed, and then the top/bottom menus disappear. The top/bottom menu item in the show/hide menu is greyed out and set to hidden in landscape mode, even when ticked. Problem is that swiping to the top edge does not now make the t/b menus appear in landscape mode, or in portrait mode when the t/b menus are hidden.

The Android app behaves in the same way.

This is probably not the place to mention it, but when using the Android app with UIe there is a problem swiping left to right, as this action is already used for a function in the app.