[Bug]: Screen sharing needs multiple confirmations

[apollo13]

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Mattermost Desktop Version

Version 5.5.0-rc.1 commit: f7b3a64

Operating System

Fedora 38

Mattermost Server Version

7.10.2

Steps to reproduce

• Start a call
• Click the screen sharing icon
• Choose a screen/window via the portal and confirm (screenshot 1 below)
• Get another confirmation dialog from mattermost for the shared window (screenshot 2 below)

Expected behavior

The second sharing screen (the white one from mattermost) should not show up. It doesn't show up when accessing the app in a browser directly, there it only shows the first dialog.

Observed behavior

After selecting the window to share, mattermost desktop shows yet another custom sharing dialog.

Log Output

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Additional Information

No response

[streamer45]

I assume this is the result of updating Electron. The screen permissions flow may need a review however this should only happen on Wayland setups which are likely not 100% supported.

[apollo13]

Yes this is only on wayland and it at least is finally in a state where it is usable and only an UX issue. Since wayland is the default on at least Fedora and Ubuntu nowadays it would probably make sense to support it explicitly instead of focusing on X11 as primary target.

[streamer45]

Agreed. When I am talking about support I really mean from the Electron side. There's only so much we can do on this one. Now that the update happened we can plan ways to make it feel a bit more native from the application.

[apollo13]

From what I can gather the electron side of things is finally good! Before it crashed #2694 ;) But I just realized that I am in the wrong repo with this report as that might be fixable solely in the mattermost calls plugin.

[streamer45]

That's good to know. I haven't looked in this yet but I think we'd need changes on this side as well because at the very least we need to understand what system we are on since this issue only exists on Wayland as far as I can tell.

[devinbinnie]

@streamer45 Any progress on this? I seem to recall Electron having a fix for this but I don't really remember.

[streamer45]

I think we are still stuck at electron/electron#37524 although I haven't really had a chance to test on Wayland still to see if there could be workarounds. Our internal ticket is https://mattermost.atlassian.net/browse/MM-53522