[Galene] Re: ANNOUNCE: Galene 1.2

["Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@toke.dk>]

Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@irif.fr> writes:

>> I guess this also explains why other video conferencing software is so
>> aggressive about opening a video preview as soon as you visit the
>> site...
>
> Yes.  I'm striving to make Galene feel non-intrusive: you're welcome to
> come to my lecture and just sit in the back and listen.
>
> (What's next?  Tell one fun thing about yourself before you're allowed to
> join?)
>
>> While I'm requesting features, on thing that's a bit surprising is that
>> the settings in the test window don't stick.
>
> That would be a bug, they're supposed to stick.  I suspect that it gets
> reset when Firefox lies about the label of the camera.  Can you reproduce
> the issue in a Chromium-based browser or in Safari?

Well, seeing as I can't pick any webcameras in the tester in Firefox at
all, I did already do this test in Chromium :)

>> Bonus points if the selection could be made to stick between visits to
>> the same site (stored in a cookie or something?) :)
>
> The selection is stored in SessionStorage, so it sticks between reloads
> but doesn't stick between visits.  Making it stick is a simple matter of
> replacing SessionStorage by LocalStorage, but if I do that, I'll have to
> add a GDPR-compliant popup.

Not if this counts as a "technically necessary" use of cookies? I'd
certainly argue that it does, and the guidance from the Danish data
authority seems to agree with me.

I can certainly see why you wouldn't want to make that call for the
upstream Galene project, though. In which case I'm fine with just
patching my own instance :)

-Toke