In preparation for adding layouts other than big grid to the NewVideoGrid component, I've abstracted the grid layout system into an interface called Layout. For now, the only implementation of this interface is BigGrid, but this will allow us to easily plug in Spotlight, SplitGrid, and OneOnOne layout systems so we can get rid of the old VideoGrid component and have One Grid to Rule Them All™.
Please do shout if any of this seems obtuse or underdocumented, because I'm not super happy with how approachable the NewVideoGrid code looks right now…
Incidentally, this refactoring made it way easier to save the state of the grid while in fullscreen / another layout, so I went ahead and did that.
We're now using LiveKit's magic RoomAudioRenderer component to make sure everyone's audio is rendered regardless of whether they have a tile in the DOM.
Calls are an environment with high cognitive load, so it's important that we keep extra UI elements like these to a minimum and stick to what's been explicitly designed. I assume that this was here as a developer feature to diagnose reliability of the back end components, which is perfectly fine, so I've kept it behind a developer setting rather than fully removing it.
* respect mute state set in lobby for call
Signed-off-by: Timo K <toger5@hotmail.de>
* move device from lobby to call
Signed-off-by: Timo K <toger5@hotmail.de>
* save device in local storage
Signed-off-by: Timo K <toger5@hotmail.de>
* local storage + fixes
Signed-off-by: Timo K <toger5@hotmail.de>
* device permissions
Signed-off-by: Timo K <toger5@hotmail.de>
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Signed-off-by: Timo K <toger5@hotmail.de>
This is an attempt to address the feedback in https://github.com/vector-im/element-call/pull/1099#discussion_r1226863404 that the video grid and video tile components have become too tightly coupled. After this change, the only requirements that the video grid makes of its child components are:
- They accept ref, style, and item props
- They attach the ref and styles to a react-spring animated element
Note: I removed the video grid Storybook file, because I'm not aware of anyone using Storybook for development of Element Call beyond Robert, and it would take some effort to fix to work with these changes.
So that we can load SFU with the virtual participants and get them
displayed in the grid layout. Before that only participants who are part
of the Matrix were displayed (i.e. participants who have published
m.call.member event to declare their participation).
This version is not supposed to properly work, this is a work in
progress.
Main changes:
* Completely removed the PTT logic (for simplicity, it could be
introduced later).
* Abstracted away the work with the media devices.
* Defined confined interfaces of the affected components so that they
only get the data that they need without importing Matris JS SDK or
LiveKit SDK, so that we can exchange their "backend" at any time.
* Started using JS/TS SDK from LiveKit as well as their React SDK to
define the state of the local media devices and local streams.
* config: add feature in `config.json`
* groupCall: adjust connection state in feed if allowCallWithoutVideoAndAudio
* matrix-js-sdk: update version for allowCallWithoutVideoAndAudio
- I modified the SDK so that mute unmute work without media and check device permission inside the SDK
- allowCallWithoutVideoAndAudio is only checked at one point outside the SDK
* docu: add join group call without media docu in READMe
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Co-authored-by: Robin Townsend <robin@robin.town>
Co-authored-by: Šimon Brandner <simon.bra.ag@gmail.com>
