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Not what you asked for, but you can mute/unmute quickly with the keyboard shortcut: ⌘/Ctrl + d
by helpfulgoogler 6y ago
Not what you asked for, but you can mute/unmute quickly with the keyboard shortcut: ⌘/Ctrl + d
- TheChaplain 6y agoThe blessed workaround as we say in software engineering, which allows us to move the real issue waay down the backlog indefinitely. :)
- tobr 6y agoAh, yes, of course. D as in mute.
- oars 6y agoM is taken by minimise, hence the next closest thing is D (for deaf).
- kosinus 6y agoBut ⌘D is also 'add bookmark' on Mac, at least. So depending on which UI element inside Chrome is focussed, it may not do what you want either. I've been using this extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-meet-push-to-talk/pgpidfocdapogajplhjofamgeboonmmj https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-meet-push-t...
- aaronharnly 6y agoNice, thanks. I have a lot of Meets hanging around in my bookmarks thanks to the focus being slightly wrong when I press command-D.
- randomsearch 6y agoWould it be less arbitrary to add another modifier to the shortcut, rather than use "D"?
- tobr 6y agoWhat would be the logic behind “deaf”? That “mute” is a homonym/polyseme of a word for a disability, so let’s just use the first letter of any disability?
- ehsankia 6y agoAnd ctrl+e for video
- sundvor 6y agoAs long as the Meet browser tab _has focus_.
- raverbashing 6y agoZoom at least uses Cmd+Shift-A for Audio and V for Video But as the recent Google Icon kerfuffle, UI/UX is not their strength (probably because of opinionated technical people that think you need to A/B shades of blue)
- TeMPOraL 6y agoTeams uses something equally silly, like Ctrl+Shift+M for mute/unmute, IIRC. Which is pretty annoying, because the mute button is about the most important button in a videoconferencing tool, and I want to have it under a single keypress, so it can be used effortlessly, with my left hand (the same that operates Alt+Tab, while my right hand is on the mouse, scrolling ... well, meeting agenda, let's say). I'd fix that for myself with AutoHotkey, but I can't, because Teams is just another Electron app, so I can't just look at which UI component has the focus to create a rule, "if focused on Teams video call and not its chat, rebind M to Ctrl+Shift+M". One of the countless reasons I hate it when people do custom UI, instead of using OS-provided controls.
- lern_too_spel 6y agoGoogle's problem is an incompetent product org. An A/B test would have quickly solved UI issues that lead to accidental or underuse of a feature.