Shorter and less technical labels for device picker

[jancborchardt]

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Feature request

Which Nextcloud Version are you currently using:
Nextcloud Hub 9 (31.0.0 dev)

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
This is an issue especially with microphone as it’s less obvious to check than the camera.

My list looks like this:

• Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller Digital Microphone
• Monitor of Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller Headphones
• Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller Headphones Stereo Microphone
• None

We already cut it a bit via name-parts__last but that always only seems to take the last word (at least in my case), so there’s 2 entries with "Microphone".

Describe the solution you'd like
What would be ideal is:

• Internal microphone
• Headphones microphone
• None

The "Monitor of" device basically never makes sense, I don’t know what it is. And the whole part of Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller is just technical jargon which does not need to be shown.

Describe alternatives you've considered
A very simple improvement would be to organize what is shown in front and behind, e.g. in my case it would already be a massive improvement to change it around like this:

• Digital Microphone (Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller)
• Headphones (Monitor of Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller) – although this one seems useless?
• Headphones Stereo Microphone (Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller)
• None

[miaulalala]

Ooof that's gonna be a hard one as there's so many different device types and so many different options of what people want to use. Not even Chrome hides those labels and simply shows the device name.

[nickvergessen]

Yeah we discussed this already multiple times and the problem is:
We ask the browser for devices and this is what we get.
We don't add "Monitor of …" or anything. It's the plain label.
Also replacing things is very difficult, and I would argue we could only prefix things …

Same devices in different tools/settings:

Chrome	Firefox	Jitsi	Teams	OS

[jancborchardt]

@nickvergessen yep – indeed the OS display is still the nicest, whereas the other ones are basically the same (except Chrome). Is it possible to get the OS display names somehow?

[nickvergessen]

Not really, we just get "a Label":
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MediaDevices/enumerateDevices

And if you look closely. the OS also has those labels, it's just prefixing it with some more details.
I assume somewhere in Gnome, Kernel or whatever there is a huuuuuuge list of devices that groups each into a type and then the type can be used to prefix the label and add an icon?

[ShGKme]

@jancborchardt In addition to the comments above - these labels are user-defined.

If a user finds a specific device name confusing - they can rename it better than we ever could.

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