Comment 2 for bug 726978

Ah right, I just upgraded to 0.3.2.1 and can confirm that there is a modality now that allows toggling pause when in playlist. I suggest removing this modality to conform to the de facto standard, and to the above usage scenario: have it play/pause regardless of where the focus is.

At the moment it is up to luck whether or not one can quickly switch to exaile and have it pause. If focus is in the wrong place, a lot of hassle follows.

Also, the fact that the functionality is dependent on this modality has no affordance in the UI, so if the user tries whether this works in exaile and happens to have focus in wrong part of the screen, they will likely learn the assumption that spacebar for play/pause just does not work - they have no reason to assume otherwise.

Also related to the above, I suggest to have play/pause in the application menu - in addition to providing accessibility to disabled users, it provides affordance/discoverability for shortcuts.