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<p>Can you elaborate on this? What is Qt lacking?</p></div>
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<p>I'm not an expert, so I don't really know. Reading the bug report, there's no way to discern input devices from monitor sinks. So if you want to report applications that are using a microphone, you end up showing applications like PuseEffects that create a monitor sink. Those applications can use a microphone but in most cases don't, because PulseEffects is mostly used to apply effects to output streams (but need to record those streams effectively).</p></div>
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<p>Qt is not really involved in this. What matters is what libpulse offers, and it seems to me that we can check whether a sink is a monitor (<a href="https://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/doxygen/structpa__source__info.html#a5e304b796ce71c7fa54e5a88f3333630" class="remarkup-link" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/doxygen/structpa__source__info.html#a5e304b796ce71c7fa54e5a88f3333630</a>). One would need to add a method isMonitor to Sink that reads this information and then we can not show the indicator when it's a monitor</p></div></div><br /><div><strong>REPOSITORY</strong><div><div>R115 Plasma Audio Volume Applet</div></div></div><br /><div><strong>REVISION DETAIL</strong><div><a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/D29312">https://phabricator.kde.org/D29312</a></div></div><br /><div><strong>To: </strong>kurmikon, VDG, Plasma, drosca, broulik<br /><strong>Cc: </strong>nicolasfella, ngraham, plasma-devel, Orage, LeGast00n, The-Feren-OS-Dev, cblack, jraleigh, zachus, fbampaloukas, ragreen, ZrenBot, himcesjf, lesliezhai, ali-mohamed, jensreuterberg, abetts, sebas, apol, ahiemstra, mart<br /></div>