From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Authentication-Results: mail.toke.dk; dkim=none; arc=none (Message is not ARC signed); dmarc=fail (Used From Domain Record) header.from=toke.dk policy.dmarc=none From: Toke =?utf-8?Q?H=C3=B8iland-J=C3=B8rgensen?= To: Juliusz Chroboczek Cc: galene@lists.galene.org In-Reply-To: <87qzj55huu.wl-jch@irif.fr> References: <87ecf7pzl9.wl-jch@irif.fr> <87o6ebtp9v.fsf@toke.dk> <87ecf6d8so.wl-jch@irif.fr> <87mrttgxek.fsf@toke.dk> <87qzj55huu.wl-jch@irif.fr> Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2026 16:10:46 +0200 X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett Message-ID: <87h5k1gnix.fsf@toke.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Message-ID-Hash: FZTEFOMYQFYGXCWOUB5SY5UBPVLF2DW5 X-Message-ID-Hash: FZTEFOMYQFYGXCWOUB5SY5UBPVLF2DW5 X-MailFrom: toke@toke.dk X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; loop; banned-address; emergency; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.10 Precedence: list Subject: [Galene] Re: ANNOUNCE: Galene 1.2 List-Id: =?utf-8?q?Gal=C3=A8ne_videoconferencing_server_discussion_list?= Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Juliusz Chroboczek 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