Auto push to talk and command line options

[jamaggs]

Hi, I just wanted to start by saying what a fantastic program. I have two minor suggestions to improve it:

1. What would be really good is if a brief press of the shortcut would bring up the dictation and then require another press of the shortcut to end it. However, a press and hold would bring up push to talk. That way, you wouldn't have to choose between push to talk or the other setting. Personally, I find both quite useful in different circumstances.
2. It would be really great if there were some simple command line options. For example, to start dictation either under push to talk mode or under the other mode (a different command line option for each). This way, it would be possible to assign shortcuts in my window manager, which would be more flexible than just the handy shortcut. For example, having a single modifier key to open the dictation.

Many thanks again. I have been looking for something like this for ages. For use in Linux, And handy is really great.

[cjpais]

I like the feature you're describing. To me it sounds like a good default behavior. I don't the current code will support it well, but will consider it when the keyboard stuff gets rewritten at some point

Contemplating having a cmdline version entirely, which is a bit more bleeding edge than the UI version and more for power users. Allowing faster iterations without as much worry about cross platform stability as it should be much easier to package and distribute I expect. Right now you can do it all in the UI and I'm not interested in particular about adding cmdline options unless someone submits a PR for it.

[retspen]

I think this is the good idea that could solve the problem with Wayland. If we will have this feature, we can use “Custom Shortcuts” in the Gnome settings for push-to-talk ON and OFF actions.

P.S.: Thanks for the great app.