A double-click in the playback area does NOT toggle full-screen mode

[Lee Hyde]

Presently a double-click of the video playback area does nothing, whereas in the majority of media players such an action would toggle its full-screen mode. This functionality is sufficiently widespread, possibly even universally so, that it is expected of any media player. Thus, Gnome Media Player should adopt this behaviour as soon as possible.

Interestingly, clicking on the playback area of a freshly opened instance of Gnome Media Player whilst no video file(s) are loaded, does indeed toggle between full-screen mode. It is only once a video file has been loaded and is either playing or paused that double-click achieved nothing. I assume this is not the intended behaviour, and that this is in fact a bug of one sort or another.

[Michael Lamothe (lamothe-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

This happens on the VLC engine which is the default for non-MPEG2 TS video files. Also, you will notice that the scroll wheel does not fast-forward/rewind i.e. no mouse events work on the video window when using the VLC engine. The issue is with the newer versions of libvlc (> 1.1.0), I'll try and work around this issue for 0.2. In the mean time you can use different engine by using the -e flag.

[Michael Lamothe (lamothe-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

This now works properly in the latest source revision, the issue is that DVD navigation does not work properly now. I think that I prefer that the mouse events work so this fix will stay,

[Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar)]

This patch needs to be backported to the Ubuntu package as well. Doing that now.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-media-player - 0.1.3-0ubuntu4

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gnome-media-player (0.1.3-0ubuntu4) natty; urgency=low

  * debian/control:
    - Add myself as maintainer.
    - Add correct Vcs-* URLs.
  * debian/patches/mouse-event-support.patch: Backport upstream patch which
    re-adds support for double-click in playback area to toggle fullscreen.
    This feature got removed when the application was updated to use vlc
    1.1.0+ . (LP: #686710)
 -- Bilal Akhtar <email address hidden> Thu, 23 Dec 2010 12:56:00 +0300