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Re: Background Features in Google Meet, Powered by Web ML

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Post by eugmill » Mon, Nov 02, 2020, 12:31 PM UTC

neilpanchal wrote: post #32

Aside: Imagine you’re driving down the road and you need to make a right turn. Well, for some reason the steering wheel is stowed away and disappeared! You need to hover your hand around the center console in a specific area to be able to expose it. Out comes the steering wheel and now you can make a right turn. Google UX/UI team: Please fucking make the mute/unmute button visible at all times.

cmd+D will mute/unmute (ctrl+D on windows?)

I still can't stand the bottom popping up and down and not being able to tell if I'm muted.

Re: Background Features in Google Meet, Powered by Web ML

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Post by faitswulff » Mon, Nov 02, 2020, 12:33 PM UTC

tjpnz wrote: post #175

emartinelli wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right click on the tab -> "Mute site". It works for me for Chromium on Ubuntu.

The problem with that is it mutes the whole domain. I still want to listen to one of the meetings.

Wow that's strange. FWIW Firefox does not do the same domain-level blocking, only tab-level blocking. And as far as I know, Hangouts still works in Firefox.

Re: Background Features in Google Meet, Powered by Web ML

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Post by consolelog2000 » Mon, Nov 02, 2020, 12:36 PM UTC

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Re: Background Features in Google Meet, Powered by Web ML

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Post by consolelog2000 » Mon, Nov 02, 2020, 12:36 PM UTC

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Re: Background Features in Google Meet, Powered by Web ML

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Post by zeendo » Mon, Nov 02, 2020, 12:40 PM UTC

tjpnz wrote: post #175

emartinelli wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right click on the tab -> "Mute site". It works for me for Chromium on Ubuntu.

The problem with that is it mutes the whole domain. I still want to listen to one of the meetings.

Ohh, that sucks. You could try running separate Firefox instances in different profiles, then. Domain muting shouldn't apply across those.

Re: Background Features in Google Meet, Powered by Web ML

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Post by fsloth » Mon, Nov 02, 2020, 12:43 PM UTC

janekm wrote: post #128

nostromo wrote: post #54

I wish my coworkers would stop using background blur. It sucks and it’s distracting. Your hair and hands pop in and out of blur. Sometimes part of your face will blur. I don’t care if your workspace is messy or your kid walks in the room. I do care that we’re all being distracted by your weirdly blurred hair and hands.

Your co-workers have a reasonable expectation of privacy regarding their home life and family members. Given that many had to start WfH with short notice meaning they couldn't relocate to circumstances enabling a dedicated home office space blurry hair and hands are a very reasonable compromise.

Yeah, this is why I use the background blur. I have my wife's and my hobbystuff behind me. Can't really align the video/pc setup any other way. Rather provide a blur than a confusion of guitars, sewing kit and such.

Re: Background Features in Google Meet, Powered by Web ML

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Post by swiley » Mon, Nov 02, 2020, 12:48 PM UTC

neilpanchal wrote: post #32

Aside: Imagine you’re driving down the road and you need to make a right turn. Well, for some reason the steering wheel is stowed away and disappeared! You need to hover your hand around the center console in a specific area to be able to expose it. Out comes the steering wheel and now you can make a right turn. Google UX/UI team: Please fucking make the mute/unmute button visible at all times.

At this point the bad UI in google products feels intentional. You're supposed to feel helpless on computers and just do whatever they want you to do.

Re: Background Features in Google Meet, Powered by Web ML

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Post by amf12 » Mon, Nov 02, 2020, 12:50 PM UTC

eCa wrote: post #159

amf12 wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Can we get a mute button visible at all times before 2024? Is it just me or is the button visible at all times? I could see the button visible on the bottom of the screen at all times I used meet during a session with friends. I even tried it right now to make sure.

It’s not. Move the pointer outside of the window and the bottom bar should hide.

I just did. It did not hide. Maybe an experiment?

Re: Background Features in Google Meet, Powered by Web ML

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Post by sundvor » Mon, Nov 02, 2020, 1:00 PM UTC

neilpanchal wrote: post #32

Aside: Imagine you’re driving down the road and you need to make a right turn. Well, for some reason the steering wheel is stowed away and disappeared! You need to hover your hand around the center console in a specific area to be able to expose it. Out comes the steering wheel and now you can make a right turn. Google UX/UI team: Please fucking make the mute/unmute button visible at all times.

A major motivation why I got a StreamDeck was to be able to put a big fat mute button that "physically" kills the microhone level at the source.

It renders a big cross through the microphone when muted.

Simple, yet insanely effective UI (#).

Best thing ever.

#) Especially when compared to the mess that is Google Meet. My favourite "feature" of theirs is how when someone is presenting, it's impossible to view the presentation as just another stream - no they have to make it dominate everything, meaning it's so hard to see the other team members.

And it can be extremely hard to see who's talking when viewing a lot of cameras at the same time. And for whatever reason the quality turns to a blurry mess a far cry from 720p just way too often. (I have fibre internet).

Re: Background Features in Google Meet, Powered by Web ML

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Post by swiley » Mon, Nov 02, 2020, 1:03 PM UTC

janekm wrote: post #128

nostromo wrote: post #54

I wish my coworkers would stop using background blur. It sucks and it’s distracting. Your hair and hands pop in and out of blur. Sometimes part of your face will blur. I don’t care if your workspace is messy or your kid walks in the room. I do care that we’re all being distracted by your weirdly blurred hair and hands.

Your co-workers have a reasonable expectation of privacy regarding their home life and family members. Given that many had to start WfH with short notice meaning they couldn't relocate to circumstances enabling a dedicated home office space blurry hair and hands are a very reasonable compromise.

Is it really that hard to set up a greenscreen for this? I can look out accross the street and see a number of people who have done this in their tiny apartments. If I cared about people being able to see the room behind my WFH set up I would do it too. Thankfully for me it just points at the wall I use as a projector screen so there's nothing to see. Plus my team seems to have just given up on video anyway.