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    [Task Manager] Indicate applications playing audio · 89e61df4
    Kai Uwe Broulik authored
    This is similar to what most web browsers do nowadays, indicating when audio is being played
    with an option to mute it.
    
    When an application has an audio stream and it is actually playing something ("not corked"),
    after a delay of 2 seconds (to avoid flashing briefly) an audio icon is displayed which disappears
    again once audio stops playing. The context menu always offers the "Mute" option whenever
    there's an audio stream provided by the application, so you can still unmute even after playback
    has stopped. Also, the "muted" icon will be shown whilst the application is muted, regardless
    of whether sound is actually being played.
    
    An application is marked as "Muted" when all associated streams are muted, and toggling mute
    will (un)mute all of them. Since PulseAudio doesn't know windows, when an application has multiple
    windows, all of them will be flagged as playing audio; the same issue we already have with
    Unity Launcher API.
    
    Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D3302
    89e61df4