Comment 12 for bug 1224756

I meant screencasts as in <http://screencasts.ubuntu.com/>. I posit that having a red icon in every audio+video screencast of Ubuntu Touch would be cringeworthy in exactly the same way as having a screencast utility icon in the panel or menu bar in most 2007~2012-era Ubuntu screencasts was cringeworthy. Because audio recording and screen recording often go together, it is important that both of them be invisible during the recording.

I suggest instead that access to the microphone be something that the system requires run-time confirmation of, in the same way that it requires confirmation of access to location or contacts. That wouldn't require any new APIs *or* any work in indicator-sound.