Add ability to hide controls with shortcut

[joes-mama]

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I'd love to have the ability to hide the player temporarily for a certain media.

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Add to the list of options for the shortcuts one to hide the controls for the current media. ie. Hide for spotify until I close spotify.

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The only similar thing currently available is manually disabling and re-enabling the extension which is obviously just a big pain. Or I can disable it for a whole app (eg. firefox) which is overkill and means that I don't get to use the extension as much as I want. The similar functionality I'd like is like right clicking to quit the player.

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It would really make this the perfect extension for me. I don't want the controls to always be hidden for a whole app like Firefox (which I can do). But sometimes I want to have them disabled quickly while I am watching one thing in particular.

Thanks for a solid extension

[ChrisLauinger77]

I do not think we will implement this. Sounds really exotic and not useful for the majority of users. But how about just disable the extension over a shortcut in gnome ?

toggle-gnome-shell-extension.sh mediacontrols@cliffniff.github.com

Content of toggle-gnome-shell-extension.sh

#!/bin/bash

installed=`gnome-extensions list | grep $1`
enabled=`gnome-extensions list --enabled | grep $1`
if [ "$installed" != "$1" ];
then
    notify-send "Extension is not installed" "$1"
    exit 0
fi

if [ "$enabled" = "$1" ];
then
    notify-send --hint=int:transient:1 "Disabled extension" "$1"
    `gnome-extensions disable $1`
else
    notify-send --hint=int:transient:1 "Enabled extension" "$1"
    `gnome-extensions enable $1`
f`i

This script can be called with the name of the extension (in our case mediacontrols@cliffniff.github.com). When then extension is enabled - it disables it and vice versa. So it toggles the extension. (when you want hide the controls - just disable the extension, when you wanna show them again enable the extension) A shortcut for this can be added in gnome and you are good to go ...

toggle-gnome-shell-extension.zip