[Galene] Re: ANNOUNCE: Galene 1.2

[Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@irif.fr>]

> 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?

> 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.

  https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/sessionStorage

-- Juliusz