Indicate when microphone is in use

[idashevskii]

It would be great to indicate when microphone in use by one of application. Such feature is built in KDE.
This can be very helpful to know if some of your apps still record your voice to avoid unexpected recordings.

Suggestion: change color of microphone icon to red when mic in use.

[brunobmello25]

maybe the usage color could be configured as an argument in the cli

something like:

mictray --usage-color=#ff0000

[idashevskii]

maybe the usage color could be configured as an argument in the cli

something like:

mictray --usage-color=#ff0000

In this way, I guess, it will require to write some kind of "coloring algorithm" to colorize the icon in specified color.
I guess it could be an extra improving feature

[peter-lyons-kehl]

https://github.com/wbolster/nothing-to-say = https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1113/nothing-to-say/ works for me (on GNOME 45.4, X11, Manjaro). It picks up mute events from GNOME "Settings" app, and also from dbus-send --dest=app.junker.mictray --print-reply /app/junker/mictray app.junker.mictray.ToggleMute.