1640671 - [UX] The Global Sharing Indicator / Overlay should not be visible to the other participants when sharing the entire screen

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Site Permissions, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Daniel Bodea [:danibodea]]

Note

• When the user participates in a video conference and shares his entire screen, the other participants will also see the Global Sharing indicator in his screen-share.

Affected versions

• nightly v78.0a1
• beta v77.0b9

Affected platforms

• I believe this is somewhat happening on all platforms, but can only be demonstrated on Windows with both the new and old sharing indicators
• Reproducible with as host MacOS, but only the new Global Sharing Indicator is actually shown to demonstrate.
• Cannot be reproduced with Ubuntu because sharing the entire screen is not possible due to e previously existing bug

Steps to reproduce

1. Engage in a video conference.
2. Start screen-sharing (entire screen).

Expected result

• The screen-share spectators (other call participants) should not see the Global Sharing indicator.

Actual result

• The other spectators can see the presenter's Global Sharing Indicator in his screen-share.

Regression range

• This is NOT a feature bug, as this is also reproducible with the old global sharing indicator.

Comment 1

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️)]

As mentioned in comment 0, this was a problem with the pre-existing indicator too. Let's not block on this for now.