Feature Requests

It would be great if the person sharing the screen could choose who gets screen control. Options include: No one Everyone Specific User (or users)

The core idea is to allow users to select a specific portion of their screen to share, rather than being limited to sharing the entire screen or a single window. This feature would be especially useful for users with large, wide, or vertical screens, where sharing the entire screen makes the content appear tiny and hard to read for the viewers. Key Benefits: Enhanced Readability: Viewers can focus on a specific, relevant section of the screen, ensuring that shared content is easily readable and engaging. Flexibility: Users can share precisely what they want, whether it's a portion of a window, a segment of a widescreen, or a particular area of a vertical screen. Privacy: By sharing only a part of the screen, users can maintain privacy over other areas of their workspace. Implementation Suggestion: Selection Tool: Introduce a tool that lets users drag and create a customizable frame on their screen, defining the area they wish to share. Resizable and Movable: Ensure that the selected area can be easily resized or moved around the screen as needed. This feature could significantly enhance the user experience for a considerable segment of your user base, particularly those working with specialized screen setups. Thank you for considering this suggestion. I believe it could greatly enhance the functionality and appeal of the Pop application.

Snap requires the host computer to run a daemon in order to run applications packaged as "snaps". It would be simpler for many users to use appimage or flatpak. Thanks! Appimage packaging guide: https://docs.appimage.org/packaging-guide/index.html flatpak packaging guide: https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/building.html

Please make the binary for Apple Silicon M1.

When I join a meeting, most of the time I'm just wanting to see someone's screen and talk, so video is not necessary. It's actually a little jarring, because I typically set my RingCentral meetings to not have cameras enabled by default, so I am used to that. When I join Pop, it's like "Oh, yeah, I'm on camera". I saw a similar request that says this was implemented, but I don't see the option in Pop settings as of v8.0.0. https://support.pop.com/feature-requests/p/remember-settings-for-camera-and-mic

Virtual webcams can be created by Logitech software, COTS stuff like Manycam, or (what I use) the free OBS. It allows you to do things like rotate, crop, blur, add virtual backgrounds, whiteboards, slideshows, etc etc, as well as full control of colors. Other video chat providers such as Slack and Google Meet recognize these virtual webcams alongside the physical ones. Screen does not.

The current AUR package (pop-bin) is often outdated. An official and up-to-date package would be nice.

With large monitors, it's sometimes nice to be able to share just a single window, to better control how legible the screenshare is on the remote end. It's also nice to not worry about local alerts or browser tabs or other "not really public" information on your screen, when sharing.

When I join a meeting, I always want the "Compact" view when I'm hosting. And always the "Large" view when a guest.

Every time I join a meeting, I hover my video and click the "[ ]" kind of icon to show my video in the same size as the other user's, because otherwise I won't see it in compact view. Would be nice if this choice could be remembered (or a default could be chosen in settings).