Re:Background Features in Google Meet, Powered by Web ML
by TeMPOraL on Monday November 02, 2020 @04:51AM
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Teams uses something equally silly, like Ctrl+Shift+M for mute/unmute, IIRC.
Which is pretty annoying, because the mute button is about the most important button in a videoconferencing tool, and I want to have it under a single keypress, so it can be used effortlessly, with my left hand (the same that operates Alt+Tab, while my right hand is on the mouse, scrolling ... well, meeting agenda, let's say).
I'd fix that for myself with AutoHotkey, but I can't, because Teams is just another Electron app, so I can't just look at which UI component has the focus to create a rule, "if focused on Teams video call and not its chat, rebind M to Ctrl+Shift+M".
One of the countless reasons I hate it when people do custom UI, instead of using OS-provided controls.
Re:Background Features in Google Meet, Powered by Web ML
by lern_too_spel on Monday November 02, 2020 @03:07PM
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Google's problem is an incompetent product org. An A/B test would have quickly solved UI issues that lead to accidental or underuse of a feature.
But as the recent Google Icon kerfuffle, UI/UX is not their strength (probably because of opinionated technical people that think you need to A/B shades of blue)