$ snap info hushboard
name:      hushboard
summary:   Mute your microphone while you’re typing
publisher: Stuart Langridge (sil)
store-url: https://snapcraft.io/hushboard
contact:   https://kryogenix.org/
license:   unset
description: |
  Never listen to the thundering sounds of someone typing on a video call
  ever again!
  
  Well, nobody who talks to _you_ will have to listen to it. If you don’t
  want to listen to it either, encourage your friends and colleagues to
  install Hushboard. While you’re typing, your mic is muted. When you stop,
  it unmutes again. That’s it.
commands:
  - hushboard
snap-id:      FutbZuCUuNqaZgM0opJeyicf9ghfpMwM
tracking:     latest/edge
refresh-date: today at 11:18 ACDT
channels:
  latest/stable:    0+git.fe18d39 2021-01-07  (6) 184kB -
  latest/candidate: ↑                                   
  latest/beta:      ↑                                   
  latest/edge:      0+git.e195307 2021-01-07 (13) 184kB -
installed:          0+git.e195307            (13) 184kB -

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 20.10
Release:	20.10
Codename:	groovy

$ snap connections hushboard
Interface                 Plug                       Slot                             Notes
audio-playback            hushboard:audio-playback   :audio-playback                  -
content[gnome-3-34-1804]  hushboard:gnome-3-34-1804  gnome-3-34-1804:gnome-3-34-1804  -
content[gtk-3-themes]     hushboard:gtk-3-themes     gtk-common-themes:gtk-3-themes   -
content[icon-themes]      hushboard:icon-themes      gtk-common-themes:icon-themes    -
content[sound-themes]     hushboard:sound-themes     gtk-common-themes:sound-themes   -
desktop                   hushboard:desktop          :desktop                         -
desktop-legacy            hushboard:desktop-legacy   :desktop-legacy                  -
gsettings                 hushboard:gsettings        :gsettings                       -
opengl                    hushboard:opengl           :opengl                          -
wayland                   hushboard:wayland          :wayland                         -
x11                       hushboard:x11              :x11                             -

See the attached video - let me know if I can help debug further...

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/56540/103961132-c0237380-51a3-11eb-8a6c-b1aecb0cdb4f.mp4

Modify __main__.py:

• Put main into a function to allow entrypoint via setup.py

Add setup.py

• Allow for an easy installation

Update README

• Add installation instructions for manual installation
• Add installation instructions for Arch

Add MANIFEST.in

• Describe which sources to include

Running on kubuntu 20.04, if I mouse over the sys tray icon I get a nice popup with __main__.py, which doesn't seem friendly.

Here's a pic:

Unrelated, but I quite like that the sys tray icon has been caught in transition by the screenshot tool due to the delay between me pressing PrtScr and the screenshot being taken.

I feel rather silly that my first ever pull request is for something so trivial, but I couldn't help but notice that the desktop category was listed as "Graphics" rather than "Utility," which to me is more intuitive. The former could lead users on an interesting hunt in a more traditional application menu found on XFCE and MATE (or even Plasma, for that matter).

I hope I'm not being too forward or presumptive. Thanks for making a killer app :)

Hi, I have made the following features for your consideration. They are all optional relative to the current implementation, and will only be active if configured to be so.

• Add feature to allow push to talk (Initial PoC implementation by @tobalr)
• Add feature to allow toggle to mute/unmute
• Add a button to app indicator, that toggles mute/unmute
• Add support for a config file so the user can set
  • To enable and set which key to use for push to talk
  • To enable and set which key to use for toggle
  • The wait duration during type to mute (Also works with type to mute)

NB: python is not my main language, so they may be style issues with my implementation. Feel free to leave a comment if something should be refactored.

Thanks very much for Hushboard, I was either annoying colleagues by typing furiously on my loud mechanical keyboard, or by forgetting to unmute! I hope this is the cure.

I do find the icon animation distracting (I'm sure it's useful feedback for some); please could it be possible to disable the animation?

When I rebooted the system, the microphone was automatically disabled (I think it kind of lost the driver). But when I run Hushboard again, my microphone just turns back on.

A configuration to allow us to prolong the mute duration would be nice, since sometimes we are not typing that fast and it results in whoever's on the other side hearing the first keypress before mute multiple times.