replacing close/min/max buttons when screen sharing on macos?

Anonymous
2024-09-20T19:16:59+00:00

why does teams now replace the normal close / min / max buttons on macos:

with:

when sharing your desktop (or window).

this is the same icon that is shown in the notification bar when screen sharing, but annoyingly replaces the window chrome... and teams is the only application to do this.

OBS studio (which records / captures the desktop) does not do this.

Zoom does not do this...

only microsoft.

why?

please remove this annoyance.

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-04-28T07:50:01+00:00

    Hello @Alex,

    Could you confirm which version you have downgraded to ? I am willing to go down to get rid of this.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-04-25T07:10:56+00:00

    If it helps, I installed the old version of Teams and it works just like before. Just for the meantime, waiting for Microsoft's mess to be fixed.

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-04-24T16:32:48+00:00

    DO NOT CHANGE OUR NATIVE FUCTIONS.. DO NOT CHANGE THE ICONS IN A PROGRAM YOU DO NOT OWN. ITS EXTREMELY PRESUMPTIVE

    I SHARE SCREENS NOT APPS or WINDOWS. I SHARE SCREENS AS I AM USUALLY SHARING 3-5 different programs during a session.. FIGMA, Illustrator, C4D, PPT, PDF, Various Browsers and browser based apps, etc etc etc.

    YOUR UX ASSUMPTIONS ARE VERY VERY INCORRECT. TAKE THIS FEATURE AWAY PERIOD, or allow users to disable it completely, not under a certain set of circumstances. I RUN 3-4 screens at a time, and am very aware of which is presenting. YOUR HACK IS ABSOLUTELY NOT HELPFUL. I will never hit a 3/4 rearrange screen or whatever your dumb buttons do....

    YOUR UX Practices are HORRIBLE.. STOP doing this to a captive userbase.
    I am not a fan of zoom, slack, or google meet.. but our company uses all four.
    We have the option not to use teams PLEASE DON'T MAKE US USE IT.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-04-24T16:26:09+00:00

    THIS! STOP Pushing your UX hacks on the rest of the world. I share from zoom, teams, google, and this is a unacceptable feature. DO NOT take over native functions on apps that are not YOURS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I cycle multiple apps and browsers during screen sharing sessions. This feature SUCKS.

    REMOVE IT, or allow users to self select. STOP forcing us to use your querky ux ideas.. They are NOT good ones.

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