1416507 - WebRTC active webcam/microphone floating warning widget placement on Linux is annoying

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1412116

(Core :: WebRTC: Audio/Video, defect, P3)

Description

[Jeff Fortin]

Attachment: firefox webrtc linux indicator snafu - 1.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/56.0
Build ID: 20171006080225

Steps to reproduce:

Enter any webrtc conferencing room, such as appear.in/douageu876234


Actual results:

See attached screenshots.
You get this floating thing that sits on top of ANY other windows or even top-level system UI elements and cannot be moved or toggled off, right in the center of the screen, so it either hides my system clock (in the case where I'm running GNOME or Elementary and there's a system panel at the top) as you can see in screenshot no.1, or it blocks Firefox's own tabs (as you can see in screenshot no.2)


Expected results:

Embed this widget into Firefox's window chrome, not floating randomly at the top-center of my system. Firefox has no business trespassing outside of its windows and blocking my other applications' UI.

Comment 1

[Jeff Fortin]

Attachment: firefox webrtc linux indicator snafu - 2.png

Comment 2

[Jeff Fortin]

For what it's worth: also tested on Fedora 57 (with its new UI) today and it is affected in a similar way.

Comment 3

[Jeff Fortin]

(Erm. I meant Firefox 57, not Fedora 57 ;)

Comment 4

[Paul Adenot (:padenot)]

I reckon this is a very unfortunate location for this UI element for GNOME 3.

jib, do you know if we have something better planned for this ?

Comment 5

[Paul Adenot (:padenot)]

Duping.