My use case is that I have multiple applications/browsers that I use for audio (and sometimes video) communications, and I found that the Plasma global shortcut for muting the microphone to be very useful - I can mute and unmute myself in conference calls without requiring the conference call application to be the currently active one - so I can look at other applications and even type, and can still immediately jump back into the call without having to hunt for the conference call window.
I think that having that function in a “push-to-talk” mode to be even more useful - instead of unmuting myself and then having to remember to hit the correct shortcut to re-mute, maybe I can just hold a global shortcut and have the microphone unmute only while the shortcut is held.
Maybe someone already has a script or something for that functionality? If you do - please share
I wish this would be implemented in KDE without needing any scripts. I don’t use push to talk, but this seems like a good feature. Also this could help people switch to Wayland that have trouble with Discord not having push to talk on Wayland (seems to be a showstopper for many people).
I’ve subscribed to that bug report, though I think it is a bit too ambitious: I would be happy with just a shortcut that disables microphone mute details while held.
Looking at the global shortcuts Wayland protocol, I believe it says that it notifies the app at both shortcut press and shortcut release, so an app can be created. I may investigate that.
Agree. Systemsettings->Shortcuts>Audio Volume has a Mute Microphone option. Adding a Push to talk option shortcut there would be enough (or enable Microphone while held if you wanna call it that). I think Wayland only would also be fine.
Sounds promising. Would that need to be a app or could this be a shortcut setting in Systemsetting?
I don’t think I can be of help developing, but if you want me to test it, just call me.
