Comment 4 for bug 726978

Yeah, I was just being lazy about playback menu. Sorry.

If GTK does not allow the global shortcut, a workable workaround would then seemingly be to bind space bar press to play/pause in all or most controls that do not accept keyboard input. Of course, you would probably need a good abstraction/OO design pattern for this that would allow not having the binding code all over the place.

At first glance, it seems it would help a lot if space bar would work in any of the list views in the tabs on the left, and when any of the tab titles are active.