Don't autoplay on startup

[Danielle Foré]

This is kind of annoying to me. It would be nice if Audience would open paused.

[Cassidy James Blaede (cassidyjames)]

It's configurable in dconf, it should be as simple as switching the default org.pantheon.audience playback-wait to true

[Cassidy James Blaede (cassidyjames)]

Actually may be more complex; that key will also make Audience wait after choosing a file to open whereas it should only wait when opening the window.

[Artem Anufrij (artem-anufrij)]

it can be dependent from the state of player:

video was playing on closing "audience": -> on next start up, video starts to play automatically. else it doesn't.

last state can be saved in org.pantheon.audience playback-wait.

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

Yeah tbh I don't think we should save the play/pause state. I've never opened Audience and had it start playing and had that be a good feeling. IMO it should always open paused.

I think opening a file while the app is open is a different case. I would expect it to autoplay in that case.

[Cassidy James Blaede (cassidyjames)]

Actually, after chatting with Daniel, I think it makes more sense to just always open the player paused. If you choose a file, it makes sense to start playing immediately, but I've never thought, "That's what I wanted" when Audience start playing when it opened. More often it's a scramble to pause it or turn down the sound or something.

[Corentin Noël (tintou)]

I think that what you want is
org.pantheon.audience.resume-videos defaulted to false