https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=428778
--- Comment #13 from pallaswept <[email protected]> --- In relation to the original bug report: If we scroll on the mic icon, the 'waves' on the icon grey out to represent its volume, until they are all grey and it is muted. That will happen to the default device. If a non-default device is muted, say by a wpctl script or by clicking in the plasma-pa widget, but the default device is not muted, the icon will appear with all white waves, as it is when nothing is muted. So there are four states just to make it annoying: - No microphone muted - Some microphones muted - Default microphone muted - All microphones muted I'll be opinionated: If there are four states and we have to choose any three, I feel like we have the right ones. Obviously 'none' and 'all' muted icons are needed, but of 'some' and 'default', default seems most useful. As it is, this can give us a false indication that we are not muted in some secondary device (like a game stream, that we can't hear). But it is accurate for the default device, which is probably more important. If the icon greyed out to show us the lowest of *all* the inputs' volumes/individual mute states, or was crossed out for *any* muted input, then we might have our default device, probably our mic, recording, when we think it's muted. I mean I wouldn't say no to a fourth icon state (some muted, but not the default, waves show default's state), but if three is enough, these are correct, in my opinion. Maybe I'm wrong. Just a tip for anyone trying to deal with this: There's a really nice plasma widget called Kurve, which is a music visualiser that will go in your panel or desktop. If you want to monitor sound you can't hear, like some secondary mic which you want to know if it is recording even though it isn't your default, this is a very pretty and incredibly functional way to do it. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
