Catching two accessibility issues along the way: we were putting the wrong accessible labels on the 'expand' button, and even the off-screen pages of the spotlight tile were being exposed to accessibility technologies rather than hidden.
We need to be consistent about whether we import matrix-js-sdk from `src` or
`lib`, otherwise we get two copies of matrix-js-sdk, and everything explodes.
* Fix issues detected by Knip
Including cleaning up some unused code and dependencies, using a React hook that we unintentionally stopped using, and also adding some previously undeclared dependencies.
* Replace remaining React ARIA components with Compound components
* fix button position
* disable scrollbars to resolve overlapping button
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Co-authored-by: Timo <toger5@hotmail.de>
The buttons were scrolling with the view instead of always being visible in a fixed location on the tile, and the indicators were not adopting the correct width.
We've gotten feedback that it's distracting whenever the same video is shown in two places on screen. This fixes the spotlight case by showing only the avatar of anyone who is already visible in the spotlight. It also makes sense to hide the speaking indicators in spotlight layouts, I think, because this information is redundant to the spotlight tile.
The Compound design tokens package is now set up to generate React components for every icon, so we no longer need to use our more error-prone method of importing the SVGs.
Includes the mobile UX optimizations and the tweaks we've made to cut down on wasted space, but does not yet include the change to embed the spotlight tile within the grid.
react-rxjs is the library we've been using to connect our React components to view models and consume observables. However, after spending some time with react-rxjs, I feel that it's a very heavy-handed solution. It requires us to sprinkle <Subscribe /> and <RemoveSubscribe /> components all throughout the code, and makes React go through an extra render cycle whenever we mount a component that binds to a view model. What I really want is a lightweight React hook that just gets the current value out of a plain observable, without any extra setup. Luckily the observable-hooks library with its useObservableEagerState hook seems to do just that—and it's more actively maintained, too!
Here I've implemented an MVP for the new unified grid layout, which scales smoothly up to arbitrarily many participants. It doesn't yet have a special 1:1 layout, so in spotlight mode and 1:1s, we will still fall back to the legacy grid systems.
Things that happened along the way:
- The part of VideoTile that is common to both spotlight and grid tiles, I refactored into MediaView
- VideoTile renamed to GridTile
- Added SpotlightTile for the new, glassy spotlight designs
- NewVideoGrid renamed to Grid, and refactored to be even more generic
- I extracted the media name logic into a custom React hook
- Deleted the BigGrid experiment
