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Hey, I'm part of a team that self hosts a jitsi instance. I've made a small plugin that uses some CSS-hacks to make the buttons in the bottom of the call also have text, and not just icons. It makes it much easier to explain to someone which button you need to press to access the chat, or begin to screen share.

Instead of sharing the ugly CSS-hacks here's just the list of what I've named the buttons, the CSS-hack isn't something I would expect to make it upstream so to say.

From left to right:

  - Mic
  - Webcam
  - Screen share
  - Chat
  - Hey! (it's willingly ambiguous so that someone might stumble upon the feature in a exploratory manner, we don't really use the "raise hand" function in a serious way)
  - This call
  - Layout
  - More actions
  - Leave
And lastly, thanks for making great software.


THANK YOU

"then press the three-lines" makes me feel debased as a human being, like I'm reduced to pictograms because language has been taken from me.

That this isn't a standard part of every software, is part of what's gone wrong with UI/UX in the last decade or so.


> "then press the three-lines"

Hamburger menu? https://www.mobileapps.com/blog/hamburger-menu

I share your disdain for this sort of UI, but then I'm content with a CLI...


Also hate it, but "burger button" just rolls off the tongue




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