Comment 9 for bug 1213907

Matthew, thanks for reporting the bug. But while annoying, this is a *relatively* minor issue (because relatively few people will install more than a couple of music players), and there are many fewer designers and bug fixers than reporters. If you are, or anyone you know is, interested in joining the ranks of bug fixers, <https://code.launchpad.net/indicator-sound> and <http://developer.ubuntu.com/packaging/html/fixing-a-bug.html> would be good places to start.

Before 13.10, the sound menu showed playback controls for a compliant app if it was the default player *or* if it was running. This was bad because it required you to care about whether an app was running.

In 13.10, the menu shows playback controls for any compliant app, regardless of whether it is default or running. This has turned out to be excessive.

What we could do is show playback controls for an app if it is playing right now, or if it is one of the N most recently playing apps. On the PC, N might be 2 or 3.

That would also harmonize the behavior with the sound menu on Touch: there, N would be 1. And it would be a slight improvement on the current design: if you only ever used a non-default player, the menu wouldn't keep reverting to showing controls for the default player when your usual player exited.