Hi,
It would be useful if the “Toggle play or pause (Space)” function could also be used if we clicked in the moving/still frame with the mouse pointer.
This would be useful because the icons used now are small and sometimes it is difficult to find exactly the right one.
Thank You!
It is not a bad idea at the high level. However, we have a number of filters with a UI overlaying the video, and these will get the mouse clicks. If click to play/pause works sometimes and other times not, that becomes a bug. If one attempts to address that by making these video UIs sensitive to where you click such that clicking a visible part of the UI versus not, then they become a little tricky to use. Also, some of these rectangle controls allow one to click anywhere inside their UI with a key held in order to move the rectangle. Also, there is the ability to drag-n-drop from the player to playlist or timeline. On touch screens, often a tap can be perceived as a short drag if you press hard and move just a little. So, that is a lot of clicks to differentiate, which is a little difficult to code but can also be difficult to use.
Meanwhile, there are a couple of different keyboard shortcuts you can use.
Thank you for your answer, you say it’s not that easy to solve as I thought, a lot more needs to be considered, thank you for thinking about my proposal.
Hi @Jules ,
I was thinking about your proposal and I found a workaround - but you have to be on Windows and have Auto Hotkey installed.
I wrote a “simple” AHK script which, when activated in the background, makes it so pressing Ctrl + Left Click ANYWHERE on the shotcut screen (not just in the preview pane) activates PLAY, and also toggles between PLAY and STOP.
It works fine for me (but a disclaimer - only use it if you are happy to do so) - see demo (each time Shotcut starts or stops I’m pressing Ctrl + Left Click).
DEMO:
So far I haven’t found it clashes with any other operations in Shotcut. I’ll report it here if I do.
See script below. To use it, copy/paste it into Notepad, or Notepad++, or any other text editor, save it as xxx.ahk (any filename you want, with ahk extension). Then run it by double-clicking the script file.
I will find this very useful myself and probably run it every time I use Shotcut.
Script:
SetKeyDelay, 200 ; ^ =ctrl +=shift !=alt
SetNumLockState , on
^LButton::
KeyWait, LButton
KeyWait, Ctrl
Send {space}
Return
That is the combination for multiple selection.
Oh yes, of course. It does mess that up. Apologies for not thinking about that. It might not be a great idea, then. I’ll add a warning in the post above if I can still edit the post.
Thanks for the effort, as I can see this is not the best solution.
No problem, @jules. It was just an idea I had, and I posted to hastily before my brain had a chance to think it through fully. 
(It’s probably not a great idea of mine to try to use AHK to alter imbedded processes within Shotcut, because of possible clashes). I will refrain from doing so!! 
I do use AHK all the time to automate repetitive tasks within Shotcut by stringing along a series of SC keyboard shortcuts, and in some cases, mouse position clicks though, and I find it very useful.