1640203 - [UX] The white/gray color scheme of the Global Sharing Indicator is hard to spot on white content

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Site Permissions, enhancement, P2)

Description

[Daniel Bodea [:danibodea]]

Note

• The overlay is supposed to be more visible. If the area is displayed on top is also white (like a common white background webpage), then the overlay is hard to spot / camouflaged / not very visible.
• Maybe it can be made more flashy with some contrasting frame/border.

Affected versions

• Beta v77.0b8
• Nightly v78.0a1

Affected platforms

• Windows 10
• Windows 7
• most probably also applies to Linux/MacOS

Steps to reproduce

1. Engage in a video call.
2. Allow microphone/camera permission.
   Notice that the Overlay is already displayed (with a white color scheme, on the main screen, above the taskbar, centered horizontally).
3. Start screen-sharing.
4. Notice the "Stop Sharing" button and relevant icon+message are added to the overlay.

Expected result

• The Global Sharing Overlay should be more flashy.

Actual result

• The Global Sharing Overlay is hard to spot on top of white backgrounds.

Regression range

• Feature implementation issue.

Comment 1

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️)]

What would be ideal here is if we could take advantage of the built-in drop-shadow that the OS's provide to make them easier to distinguish. We could also add a border, though that might be overkill.

Comment 2

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️)]

This might be helpful guidance for Windows: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43818022/borderless-window-with-drop-shadow

Comment 3

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️)]

Figuring out the dropshadow here might also be useful in fixing bug 1568316.

Comment 4

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️)]

Solving this on macOS seems to be pretty as simple as setting titlebar=yes on the indicator. Not sure how that will affect other OS's though. Still sorting out Windows...

Comment 5

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️)]

Bug 1643503 adds a border to the indicator to make it easier to distinguish. Still, it'd be good to figure out how to get the native OS drop shadows working, but let's lower the priority of this.