Frankly, I can perfectly live without such notification. Option in the Orecchiette settings enabling background recording of program (one for temporary enabling/disabling, and a checkbox for "persistent after reboot") would be all that is needed.

Bringing any indicators during a call i extremely bad idea, considering all the things with CPU and RAM priorities calls have (and should have). *Maybe* you could rig a new indicator LED pattern, that would fire up when Orecchiette daemon is recording - this could work without interruptions, for example, showing red "record" led when it's recording - but I'm still not sure that it's necessary, (albeit cool) so if could be optional, the better.

Also, I think that having 0 GUI would allow to load less things into memory/CPU after all, wouldn't it? It would need to only do a small subset of things Orecchiette is doing now (command for recording with [pre]set parameters, command to stop). Sure, recording is still most intensive task, but all that GUI drawing would be gone.

Or, maybe it should be done just like Torchio/Lanterne, i.e. GUI-less second application, and that 2nd one would be daemonized?

There must be a way - after all, despite being badly written and unreliable, recaller *was* working for recording conversations, without impacting actucal call.

/Estel