Lars, yes the microphone source. Another use case that may be worth considering is video recording-- most of the time it will accompany audio recording, but it is conceivable it video-only recording is possible too.
My initial thought is that it would result in a red icon (or whatever) appearing in every Ubuntu screencast that included real-time audio. That seems like a bad idea. If it's okay for a screencast app to record the screen without befouling it first, why shouldn't it be okay for it to record audio too? Matthew, screencast (I guess you mean screen capture?) apps are a special case and not supported by Mir or application confinement at this time (ie, no app can perform a screen capture right now on Touch). I'm not sure why it actually is bad that the icon be read in the screen capture (but maybe it is). Looking towards converged, my understanding is that screen capture apps will be trusted, not confined and not available in the app store. IMHO, I think for now we just always adjust the icon (or whatever) to close this bug and then file a wishlist feature request bug to add an inhibit API for the visual cue (or something) that would only be available to trusted and/or unconfined apps. (I can imagine a DBus call in indicator-sound: InhibitRecordingVisualCue and UninhibityRecordingVisualCue-- screen capture apps can use this all they want and appstore apps are blocked from using it). In concrete terms-- for 13.10 implement the visual cue and for 14.04 implement the feature to inhibity the visual cue. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to indicator-sound in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1224756 Title: pulseaudio should give a visual indication when it is recording Status in “indicator-sound” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in “pulseaudio” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “indicator-sound” source package in Saucy: Incomplete Status in “pulseaudio” source package in Saucy: Invalid Bug description: David and the security team (inspired by an observation from Rick) discussed that when recording, pulseaudio should somehow unobtrusively show the user that it is recording. The easiest thing to do would be for pulseaudio to alert indicator-sound which would then turn its icon red (similar to indicator-message turning blue with new messages). Marking 'high' because apps with access to pulseaudio can currently eavedrop on users. If the app is allowed to do networking (the default for apps), then it can ship that information off to a server somewhere. Note 1, the alert to indicator-sound must happen via the out of process pulseaudio server and not the confined app itself to be effective. Note 2, we should consider how to enforce this for foreground apps only. Application lifecycle should probably handle this for 13.10 (apps are suspended if not in foreground or if the screensaver is on), but we don't want an app on the converged device to record in the background when the user isn't paying attention. Example eavesdropping attack: start recording only when the screensaver is on (perhaps inhibiting the screensaver during recording would be enough). To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-sound/+bug/1224756/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
