Indicator sound menu always showing media player in "running" state

[Nick Dedekind]

Even if nothing is playing or loaded into a music player, the player still shows in running state.

Unity8 should be using the state in conjunction with the running flag to determine if it should display track info.

Partial output of actions shows "running=true"
dbus-send --print-reply --session --dest=com.canonical.indicator.sound /com/canonical/indicator/sound org.gtk.Actions.DescribeAll

      dict entry(
         string "mediaplayer-app.desktop"
         struct {
            boolean false
            signature ""
            array [
               variant array [
                     dict entry(
                        string "running"
                        variant boolean true
                     )
                     dict entry(
                        string "state"
                        variant string "Stopped"
                     )
                  ]
            ]
         }
      )

[Lars Karlitski (larsu)]

"running" means that the application process is running and exposing the MPRIS interface. It has nothing to do with the play status (that's "state") or whether something's loaded into the player (that's "title" / "artist" / "album").

[Nick Dedekind (nick-dedekind)]

Unity8 should be using the state in conjunction with the running flag to determine if it should display track info.
Play/Paused + running = show tracks
Anything else = show player placeholder.