More screen-sharing configurations

[fdionisi]

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I'd love more screen-sharing configurations to:

• turn off automatic screen share (and manually enable it when needed) - would be great to override it through .zed/settings.json
• only share target screen(s)/application(s) a-la Discord
• allow to have screen shared even while editing in Zed; this would help when collaboratively working on frontends -> make some changes, save, and see changes directly in Zed.

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[iamnbutler]

• Explain the first one a bit more?
• Yeah we need to do this. Will probably add this in our streaming push or shortly after.
• You can do this now, if you are sharing your screen your follower can open the collaboration menu and select "Screen" instead of the shared project. We need to make this more discoverable.

[fdionisi]

• Explain the first one a bit more?

I work with different teams and partners, and I try to push Zed to them, so I often invite them to collaborate. But in these cases, I don't always want to share the screen with them when leaving Zed - it may be that as my partners are coding, I'm quickly answering a message on Slack, or writing a response email, which I don't want to share.

I know the docs say it's up to me to keep my screen clean, but I was wondering if a configuration may come to help.

Similarly, as the project_online_by_default, I'm hoping we can have a share_screen_by_default configuration that can be set.

The idea of turning it on/off at a project level is very nice to have, but not a requirement.

• Yeah we need to do this. Will probably add this in our streaming push or shortly after.

Exciting, looking forward to it.

• You can do this now, if you are sharing your screen your follower can open the collaboration menu and select "Screen" instead of the shared project. We need to make this more discoverable.

Uhm, I'll try this out, because I thought I couldn't share my screen and code at the same time. But if that's already possible, I just need to discover it :-D.

Thank you @iamnbutler

[jansol]

it may be that as my partners are coding, I'm quickly answering a message on Slack, or writing a response email, which I don't want to share.

I also wouldn't want deskop notifications from messaging apps showing up, as they often contain the actual contents of messages. I know macOS has a feature to suppress notification popups while screensharing but that seems more like a bandaid than a proper solution and is not available on other platforms.

[iamnbutler]

it may be that as my partners are coding, I'm quickly answering a message on Slack, or writing a response email, which I don't want to share.

I also wouldn't want deskop notifications from messaging apps showing up, as they often contain the actual contents of messages. I know macOS has a feature to suppress notification popups while screensharing but that seems more like a bandaid than a proper solution and is not available on other platforms.

We might already do this? I'm not totally sure. I am away of that feature, unsure if we ended up shipping with it or not.

[iamnbutler]

• Explain the first one a bit more?

I work with different teams and partners, and I try to push Zed to them, so I often invite them to collaborate. But in these cases, I don't always want to share the screen with them when leaving Zed - it may be that as my partners are coding, I'm quickly answering a message on Slack, or writing a response email, which I don't want to share.

I know the docs say it's up to me to keep my screen clean, but I was wondering if a configuration may come to help.

Similarly, as the project_online_by_default, I'm hoping we can have a share_screen_by_default configuration that can be set.

The idea of turning it on/off at a project level is very nice to have, but not a requirement.

• Yeah we need to do this. Will probably add this in our streaming push or shortly after.

Exciting, looking forward to it.

• You can do this now, if you are sharing your screen your follower can open the collaboration menu and select "Screen" instead of the shared project. We need to make this more discoverable.

Uhm, I'll try this out, because I thought I couldn't share my screen and code at the same time. But if that's already possible, I just need to discover it :-D.

Thank you @iamnbutler

Ok makes sense! Will think about these.