From dbdcd862e7694955ca64cce1e96df9f30d7aeb2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Heinemeier Hansson <david@hey.com>
Date: Wed, 20 May 2026 14:35:47 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Simplify

---
 .../bar/indicators/screenrecording.qml        | 24 ++++++-------------
 shell/scripts/indicators/screen-recording.sh  |  7 ------
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100755 shell/scripts/indicators/screen-recording.sh

diff --git a/shell/plugins/bar/indicators/screenrecording.qml b/shell/plugins/bar/indicators/screenrecording.qml
index a3776ed9..0036072f 100644
--- a/shell/plugins/bar/indicators/screenrecording.qml
+++ b/shell/plugins/bar/indicators/screenrecording.qml
@@ -1,33 +1,24 @@
 import QtQuick
 import Quickshell.Io
-import qs.Commons
 import qs.Ui
 
 BarIndicator {
   id: root
 
-  property string statusText: ""
-  property string statusTooltip: ""
+  property bool recording: false
 
-  active: statusText !== ""
-  activeText: statusText
+  active: recording
+  activeText: "󰻂"
   inactiveText: "󰻂"
-  activeTooltipText: statusTooltip
+  activeTooltipText: "Stop recording"
   inactiveTooltipText: "Screen recording"
 
   function refresh() {
     if (!root.bar || statusProc.running) return
-    statusProc.command = ["bash", "-lc", Util.shellQuote(root.bar.omarchyPath + "/shell/scripts/indicators/screen-recording.sh")]
+    statusProc.command = ["pgrep", "--quiet", "-f", "^gpu-screen-recorder"]
     statusProc.running = true
   }
 
-  function update(raw) {
-    var data = extractData(raw)
-
-    statusText = data.text || ""
-    statusTooltip = data.tooltip || ""
-  }
-
   onBarChanged: refresh()
   Component.onCompleted: refresh()
 
@@ -39,9 +30,8 @@ BarIndicator {
 
   Process {
     id: statusProc
-    stdout: StdioCollector {
-      waitForEnd: true
-      onStreamFinished: root.update(text)
+    onExited: function(exitCode) {
+      root.recording = exitCode === 0
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/shell/scripts/indicators/screen-recording.sh b/shell/scripts/indicators/screen-recording.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 80038e0e..00000000
--- a/shell/scripts/indicators/screen-recording.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-if pgrep -f "^gpu-screen-recorder" >/dev/null; then
-  echo '{"text": "󰻂", "tooltip": "Stop recording", "class": "active"}'
-else
-  echo '{"text": ""}'
-fi