Amarok play/pause can resume playing but not pause + incoherency

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
Using the control in Veromix, I could unpause a track, but I cannot pause a 
track. 

Incoherency:
1.Run Amarok 
2.At start, Amarok is by default paused. Veromix however is displaying a "play" 
button

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
0.13.0, with Amarok 2.4.0 on KDE 3.6.5 (gentoo amd64, phonon-gstreamer backend)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by abe...@gmail.com on 3 Sep 2011 at 4:12

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On my system veromix shows the same buttons as amarok. 

At start Amarok is paused and shows ">". (veromix also)
After clicking on the ">" icon, amarok and veromix show both the "II".

Have you tested with other icon-themes?

Original comment by nik.lutz on 12 Sep 2011 at 10:48

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I am currently using the default "Oxygen" icon theme.  I have tried changing it 
to the other "Tango" icon theme but the same behavior is observed.  wonder how 
I maybe able to give more info for your debugging.

Original comment by abe...@gmail.com on 19 Sep 2011 at 11:27

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Which method of media-player-control (veromix settings) have you enabled - I 
recommend to use only mpris2.

You wrote: At start, Amarok is by default paused. Veromix however is displaying 
a "play" button

veromix (as amarok) shows icon auf the action to be performed when you click 
(and not the current state e.g. playing or paused). So when amarok is 
paused/stopped veromix shows a play button. Is this different on your system?

Original comment by nik.lutz on 19 Sep 2011 at 2:10

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I just uninstalled it (plasmapkg -r veromix-plasmoid) and reinstall the latest 
version (0.13.1).  The behavior is the same.

I can confirm that mpris2 is used, and amarok is displayed under the list in 
the setting dialog.

I clearly understand your explanation that veromix is showing the icon of the 
action "to be performed" but not "the current state" of amarok. I probably have 
not explain it clear enough.

(1)According to your intended design, the behavior is correct on my system when 
amarok is first started (song paused, veromix showing "play" button).
(2)However, if I press the "play" button in veromix, amarok starts playing 
(expected), but veromix "play" icon remains unchanged (unexpected).
(3)If I press the "play" button in veromix again, nothing changed, because 
amarok is playing anyway.
(4)Now, if I press the "pause" button in Amarok, song paused, veromix icon 
toggled to "pause" icon! (compare with (1))

Summary: I cannot pause amarok using the veromix control regardless. I wonder 
if that is the core reason why the state is toggled inappropriately.

Original comment by abe...@gmail.com on 19 Sep 2011 at 2:38

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Nik,
I just had time to try out version 0.13.2 and the above-mentioned inconsistency 
behavior no longer exist. I wouldn't be able to tell if it is the new version 
fixing it, or if it is because of my updated KDE (currently 4.7.4).

There is a typo on the initial report. The original version I tested with the 
inconsistency behavior should be KDE version 4.6.5 but not 3.6.5(of cos!)

Thanks :-)

Original comment by abe...@gmail.com on 22 Jan 2012 at 3:21

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Original comment by nik.lutz on 27 Jan 2012 at 11:10

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