no method to properly close banshee

[Joel Pickett]

Binary package hint: banshee

In the media menu, there's no Quit, so banshee window closes but still is running (and playing back) in the background and sound menu. Closing the application with the X Close window button is the same thing. Right clicking the icon in the dash on the left does the same as before, doesn't properly close it. Ctrl+Q doesn't do anything either.

I just want to know how to properly exit banshee while there is a song playing WITHOUT having to manually stop the song and then close out of the app.

with latest updates as of 10th April 2011.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: banshee 1.9.5-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.39-generic 2.6.38
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Apr 10 16:54:31 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110330)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_AU:en_US:en
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: banshee
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

This is an issue with the SoundMenu specification, which Banshee complies to. Hence, I'm changing the affected package to indicator-sound instead.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Hi Joel, I'm sorry that I don't understand this bug report. The summary says that there is "no method to properly close banshee", but there are at least two: the close button in the title bar, and the "Close" menu item. As for "how to properly exit banshee while there is a song playing WITHOUT having to manually stop the song and then close out of the app", that is the way of ending the Banshee process, if you really want to do that, though you shouldn't ever need to.

So as far as I can tell, there isn't an actual problem described here.

See <http://design.canonical.com/2011/03/quit/> for details of our simplification of applications in general and music players in particular.

[DarkRedman (darkredman-deactivatedaccount)]

I've exactly the same bug but I use either Ctrl+Q shortcut to close Banshee or the orange cross but in the both case Banshee just close the GUI but doesn't stop playing music and the process is still running, I can't avoid to kill its process to close !

[DarkRedman (darkredman-deactivatedaccount)]

The bug occured again !

[DarkRedman (darkredman-deactivatedaccount)]

@Matthew, the cross button doesn't work well, Banshee process is still running and playing sound ! Only the GUI leaves out !

[Pablo_F (pablo-fbus)]

Control-Q works for me in ubuntu 11.04 with the default interface Unity.

Here, this workaround is fine in ubuntu 11.04 with ubuntu classic (but it fails with Unity)

Edit -> Preferences -> Extension tab: Enable notification area icon

When you close banshee the audio does not stop yet but you just have to right -click on the icon to properly quit banshee.

[gregreen (gregreen)]

This is actually an intended feature of Banshee. It was a horrible decision to force the user to press pause before quitting Banshee, but that's the decision the developers made, and I suspect they'll mark this report as "wishlist." Hopefully the next version will make it easier to quit the application.

[bealer (robertbeal)]

When I click the cross or select "close", it closes Banshee, which is also reflected in Unity (ie no pointer to indicate it's open).

I then go to the sound-indicator. It shows Banshee and the song still playing. I click on "Banshee" in the indicator, yet Banshee doesn't pop up. Instead it now shows on the Unity sidebar again (ie the pointer to indicate it's open). I then have to go across to the sidebar and click Banshee to get it to show again.

When Banshee is open and playing a song, if I right click on the launcher on the unity sidebar and select "Quit" it actually closes Banshee (ie the song continues playing).

There are a mixture of bugs, language inconsistencies and awful usability. It does not act as the user would expect. Bring back a "Quit" option. And make sure "Quit" actually quits the application.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

bealer, you have identified two bugs, nice work. One is "I click on 'Banshee' in the indicator, yet Banshee doesn't pop up", and the other is "When Banshee is open and playing a song, if I right click on the launcher on the unity sidebar and select 'Quit' ... the song continues playing". Please report each of those separately, because the code to fix each of them will be different, and adding a menu item to Banshee wouldn't fix either of them. Thanks!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for indicator-sound (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]