1139462 - Window sharing does not let users select non-browser windows in full-screen mode

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Hello (Loop) :: Client, defect, P3)

Description

[Sevaan Franks [:sevaan]]

When a user is in full-screen mode, Window sharing only presents the option to share the browser, not any other windows.

I suspect because "Full-screen" on a mac is essentially a separate desktop.

Preferred solution: We need to find away to share the windows on the other desktop, which takes the user out of full-screen automatically.

Less-Preferred Solution: If that is impossible for some reason, then screen-sharing should be disabled in Full-screen with a notice saying something akin to: "Window sharing does not work in full-screen" and a link to exit full-screen mode.

Comment 1

[:shell escalante]

Hi Mike,  not sure how high to triage this bug.  Ideally the preferred solution is an option - depending how complex the reason it's being blocked.  Do you have any guesses to cause/complexity to resolve?

I'm tempted to put this as "Priority 3 - Average Bug. definitely a problem, but doesn't stop someone from using the product", but may be P2 - depending how often we think folks will be full screen "Priority 2 - Major impact, considering severity × probability. Not a blocker for shipping."

Comment 2

[Romain Testard [:RT]]

I'd say definitely a P2 since it only affects Mac users and only when they are in full screen mode.
Windows users seem unaffected.

Comment 3

[Romain Testard [:RT]]

(In reply to Romain Testard [:RT] from comment #2)
> I'd say definitely a P2 since it only affects Mac users and only when they
> are in full screen mode.
> Windows users seem unaffected.

Apologies, I meant to say P3....

Comment 4

[Ian Bicking (:ianbicking)]

We're no longer supporting window sharing in the product.