1738468 - wayland: firefox sharing (screen, audio, video recording) indicator is poped out as another window

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Widget: Gtk, defect, P2)

Description

[rifogoy562]

Attachment: separate_window

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:94.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/94.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Start Firefox with wayland.
2. Share screen (Here screenapp.io website is used as test) or present audio or video.
3. Accept system dialog and select which screen/window to capture.

Actual results:

The sharing indicator that stays on top of screen on X11 session now pops out as a window and is also shown among all windows (present window in plasma). It has usual window controls maximize and close too.

Expected results:

Sharing indicator should stay on top of screen. Or as a system tray notification is available already, it might not be shown at all.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::WebRTC' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Michael Froman [:mjf]]

This is front-end/UI related, not Core::WebRTC. I think site permissions may be a more appropriate component.

Comment 3

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco]]

The severity field is not set for this bug.
:pbz, could you have a look please?

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Comment 4

[Martin Stránský [:stransky] (ni? me)]

Which desktop / distro is it?
Thanks.

Comment 5

[russianneuromancer]

Window title looks like KDE to me

Comment 6

[rifogoy562]

(In reply to russianneuromancer from comment #5)

Window title looks like KDE to me

Yes KDE, this screenshot is from KDE neon. I can reproduce this issue on fedora 35 GNOME and KDE too.

Comment 7

[rifogoy562]

Attachment: gnome overview

reproduction of issue in gnome

Comment 8

[rifogoy562]

Attachment: gnome floating

In gnome though window decorations are missing, but probably this is because gnome doesn't decorate if client requests CSD iirc. GNOME 41, Fedora 35, firefox 94.

Comment 9

[rifogoy562]

Finally this is due to https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/issues/44 and hence not a Firefox bug. This MR https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/132 is the possible solution and it should come to wayland implementations for the bug to be fixed in actual.

Comment 10

[Robert Mader [:rmader]]

I was also musing about different solutions in bug 1715986, but that would need more work on pipewire integration in WebRTC.