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Widgets should support tiling #13525

Open cassio-tav opened 4 years ago

cassio-tav commented 4 years ago

Description (what happens and what I expect)

The widgets have a popout button but that's not what the button does. When I click it (on a jitsi or etherpad widget), the widgets stay put right there where they were -- no pop out! Instead, a separate browser window (or a tab if the browser's already open) appears with the jitsi (or etherpad). This is really annoying because I set up different workspaces (I use i3wm) for different types of tasks; so it happens that my browser is sitting three workspaces down, which is very unwieldy. The first time it happened, it was only after the videoconference was over that I found out four of five jitsi widget tabs in my browser...

I consider this to be a bug, not a request for functionality. And I don't get it. Why can't the little boxes just pop out so that one can move them around as they please? That would make a big difference, specially in the case of a tiling window manager (whose users, specially those with small screens, tend to make the best out of the screen real estate).

Steps to reproduce

Just enter a group with a widget and hit the Popout button.

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arunsathiya commented 4 years ago

I wanted to report the same. Also worth noting that, when the popup opens on a web browser, it basically means that another member joining that Jitsi call.

t3chguy commented 4 years ago

Pop out is going away as it is incompatible with the security work going on, a way to make the widget larger is in the works. Not draggable around but much more control.