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[Lars Uebernickel <lars.uebernickel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I assume by "recording" you mean reading from an microphone source? (I
can't imagine any other way to figure out if an application is
recording.)

Also, I'm not sure whether turning the icon red is enough to convey "an
application is using the microphone". Maybe we can get some design input
before implementing this?

By the way, this will most likely be implemented in indicator-sound, not
pulseaudio.

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Title:
  pulseaudio should give a visual indication when it is recording

Status in “indicator-sound” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “pulseaudio” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “indicator-sound” source package in Saucy:
  New
Status in “pulseaudio” source package in Saucy:
  Triaged

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, this must happen via the out of process pulseaudio
  server and not the confined app itself to be effective.

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