Naming label covers parts of the screensharing output, allow hiding it

osnyx commented 1 year ago

Is your feature request related to a problem you are facing?

When sharing the screen via Jitsi Meet, the display contents have an overlay with a label describing whose screen is being displayed. In the scrrenshot below, this is Fellow Jitser's screen. This overlay can neither be hidden nor deliberately moved, it only changes its location depending on whether the conference controls are shown or not. The label might obstruct the view of what is being displayed on the shared screen. For example, for full-screen terminal windows, it often overlaps with the bottom lines where the prompt is and most relevant information is displayed.

Describe the solution you'd like It shall be possible to hide this naming overlay, either as a global setting or with a close button for each individual overlay.

Describe alternatives you've considered

alternative to hiding: It's also an option to make the overlay draggable and movable, so it can be moved out of the way when it's obstructing the view on a particular item
- with dynamic content, this might require constantly dragging the overlay around, so I'm still in favour of completely hiding it
These label overlays are actually shown for all video output, including other speaker's cameras. While it is bothering me the most for screen shares, I am also fine with making it hideable for all video content

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osnyx commented 11 months ago

This is still a thing.

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osnyx commented 9 months ago

This is still a thing.

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osnyx commented 7 months ago

Still a thing.

hristoterezov commented 1 month ago

@osnyx I did some improvements related to this recently with https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/commit/1152073b57b9352e4899dbe49ea79d3126e87ff7

Now we hide the label for screen sharing when the toolbar is hidden as well. Note that the label will be still visible when the toolbar is visible.

Is this acceptable solution for your use case?

jitsi / jitsi-meet

Naming label covers parts of the screensharing output, allow hiding it #13873