https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469976
Bug ID: 469976
Summary: Allow a keyboard shortcut for existing functionality
of toggling audio mute of the currently active
window/application only
Classification: Plasma
Product: plasmashell
Version: 5.27.4
Platform: Gentoo Packages
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: wishlist
Priority: NOR
Component: Task Manager and Icons-Only Task Manager
Assignee: plasma-b...@kde.org
Reporter: k...@jmbreuer.net
Target Milestone: 1.0
Since recently, there's this very nice feature of the little speaker icons
shown on the window selectors in the task manager, which toggles audio mute of
that specific application.
As far as I could determine, there's currently no way to activate this
functionality using a keyboard shortcut.
I've been in a number of situations where I was wishing for that exact keyboard
shortcut, such as:
- (quickly) muting an audio player on an incoming video conference / soft phone
call
- muting a full screen game when a "hard" phone call comes in, but leaving
audio notifications from other applications intact during the call
- Wanting to quickly silence audio prompts by one certain set of applications,
while enabling others
... etc.
All necessary information (active task, how to do the per-application mute
toggle) is obviously already available to the Task Manager - the active
application is shown highlighted, and the mute button there knows what to do.
I'm tempted to have a look to roll a patch / enhancement myself, in that regard
a question to the people who might know:
Is the Task Manager an integral part of kwin, or is it a separate/different
component (which/where)?
... since kwin already registers a number of keyboard shortcuts, extending this
by the one more feels feasible to me even without knowing KDE code in depth.
However, adding keyboard shortcut functionality to a component that doesn't
have any at all so far, not so much. ;-)
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