Seems that even if the webcam is off the plasmoid LED stays on. I tried opening Cheese which activates and turns on the webcam. The webcam active LED on the machine turns on. Then when I quit Cheese and the webcam active LED is off, the plasmoid LED stays on.
Is this the correct behavior?
Hi - sorry for the delay in response. I'm no longer (or just not currently) a user of KDE on my main machine, so therefore this is no longer in active development.
The camera LED is activated by an existence of "/dev/v4l". The camera is usually activated or deactivated at the hardware level (Fn+F10 on System76 netbooks), or sometimes at the bios level.
Feel free to look into the code or fork it. If you need something simple customized but don't know how, shoot me an email and I'll see what I can do.
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Seems that even if the webcam is off the plasmoid LED stays on. I tried opening Cheese which activates and turns on the webcam. The webcam active LED on the machine turns on. Then when I quit Cheese and the webcam active LED is off, the plasmoid LED stays on. Is this the correct behavior?
Hi - sorry for the delay in response. I'm no longer (or just not currently) a user of KDE on my main machine, so therefore this is no longer in active development. The camera LED is activated by an existence of "/dev/v4l". The camera is usually activated or deactivated at the hardware level (Fn+F10 on System76 netbooks), or sometimes at the bios level. Feel free to look into the code or fork it. If you need something simple customized but don't know how, shoot me an email and I'll see what I can do.