Re:Background Features in Google Meet, Powered by Web ML
by ajsnigrutin on Monday November 02, 2020 @05:20AM
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But this has been a solved problem for ages.... just move your mouse a tiny bit, and all the controls are exposed, with large, visible buttons, help text, etc, click whatever you need to, and the controls slowly dissapear, revealing the video.
Having to find the exact spot to hover your mouse is a bad UX
Re:Background Features in Google Meet, Powered by Web ML
by coding_unit_1 on Monday November 02, 2020 @04:46AM
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I don't disagree, but all the video conferencing tools have a shortcut for mute/unmute. Google Meet included (Cmd+D on a Mac).
Re:Background Features in Google Meet, Powered by Web ML
by magicalhippo on Monday November 02, 2020 @05:14AM
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But what's the shortcut for the random conference tool the organizers of this meeting decided to use?
Just make it visible. It's supposed to be a tool, function over form.
Re:Background Features in Google Meet, Powered by Web ML
by vorpalhex on Monday November 02, 2020 @11:14AM
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Which also happens to be the shortcut for bookmarking webpages in most browsers... and Meet doesn't let you rebind this to something sane like spacebar.
Re:Background Features in Google Meet, Powered by Web ML
by m4rtink on Monday November 02, 2020 @11:25AM
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Not to mention the window might not have focus when you need to use it, making it preatty unreliable.
And sometimes it's great, because you get to focus on the content, and sometimes it's not, because you lose control. It's something that should be optional or configurable. It's great to have shortcuts for the most common commands (like space for pause in youtube), and I guess it would make a lot of sense if video conferencing tools also had such a shortcut for mute/unmute.
But again, give people more control over their UI. There are too many applications that mess this up one way or another.