No default player selected, so launch-media-player button does nothing

Bug #278966 reported by Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-control-center
Invalid
Medium
libgnome (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

Steps to repeat:

1) Get yourself a multimedia keyboard with a launch-media-player button (or just enable some other shortcut in system -> preferences -> shortcuts -> Media Player )

2) Press that launch-media-player-button or whatever shortcut you defined

3) Notice it doesn't work

4) Go to System -> Preferences -> Default applications -> Multimedia-player and select either rhythmbox or totem

5) Press the launch-media-player-button or whatever shortcut you defined

6) Notice that it now works

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Revision history for this message
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report, the issue is known upstream, you can read about it on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=550719

Changed in gnome-control-center:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
Changed in gnome-control-center:
status: Unknown → New
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package libgnome - 2.24.1-0ubuntu2

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libgnome (2.24.1-0ubuntu2) intrepid; urgency=low

  * debian/libgnome2-common.gconf-defaults:
    - set rhythmbox as the default multimedia player there (lp: #278966)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:25:50 +0200

Changed in libgnome:
status: Triaged → Fix Released
Changed in gnome-control-center:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: New → Unknown
Changed in gnome-control-center:
status: Unknown → Invalid
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