I’m trying to develop my own gnome extesnion to hide the microphone icon using some custom logic, this is the icon that i’m talking about:
By taking a quick look at the gnome-shell volume.js file, I’ve noticed that this is where the icon is set.
I wanted to develop an extension that somehow can override that logic.
My problem: since I’ve a virtual mic, the mic indicator is always showing.
My goal: override the maybeshowinput somehow such that it also ignores source-outputs with node.virtual properties.
How can i acheive this? I’m having a hard time trying to grasp all the components, this is my first time trying to develop a gnome extension. Any help would be appreciated.
The indicator is bound with the input visible property just like this (volume.js):
this._input.bind_property('visible',
this._indicator, 'visible',
GObject.BindingFlags.SYNC_CREATE);
And the input visible property logic is mostly at the _maybeShowInput function (also volume.js).
_maybeShowInput() {
// only show input widgets if any application is recording audio
let showInput = false;
if (this._stream) {
// skip gnome-volume-control and pavucontrol which appear
// as recording because they show the input level
let skippedApps = [
'org.gnome.VolumeControl',
'org.PulseAudio.pavucontrol',
];
showInput = this._control.get_source_outputs().some(
output => !skippedApps.includes(output.get_application_id()));
}
this._showInput = showInput;
this._sync();
}