[Galene] Re: Gal?ne for bigger meeting (10-15 people) - problems and UX questions

[Curtis Villamizar <curtis@orleans.occnc.com>]

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In message <87bjc6zpwk.wl-jch@irif.fr>
Juliusz Chroboczek writes:
> 
> > My feeling is there is quite a lot of UI/UX problems here. For example, by
> > default it asks "what you want - microphone, or microphone + camera". My guess
> > is that many people who had problems did not understand what this means, and
> > they left it on default "none", and that is why their audio did not work.
>  
> That's a deliberate design choice.  It is my opinion that a normal human
> being do not want to walk into a meeting with their camera switched on:
> they want to lurk for a while before they switch their camera on.  At
> least, that's my experience with students.
>  
> After a lot of discussions, I have agreed to add the login menu for those
> people who really want to show their face straight away, but the expected
> UX is that you come in, lurk for a while, then hit « Present ».
>  
> > I don't really understand why someone would log in to a room as chat only.
>  
> Because you want to listen to the discussion for a while before you
> participate?  Or perhaps because it's a lecture and you're a student who
> will only turn on their camera when they have a question to ask?
>  
> > Let the camera and microphone be off by default, but the browser must
> > have the permissions, because otherwise for a big number of people
> > Galène is useless - it will make problems and they simply will not use it.
>  
> I'm not sure.  Should we be asking for permissions even for those users
> who only intend to listen to the lecture?


The default could be set in the group definition.  chat-only for
lecture, camera+microphone for chat or meeting.  This way the person
setting up the group can make the decision based on how the group is
used.

Curtis