[Feature]: Auto hide the toolbar while recording

[i-see-pixels]

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It would be great to have this tiny enhancement to auto hide the toolbar when the recording starts. It can be disabled in settings of the application.

[michTheBrandofficial]

Hello, @i-see-pixels I want to work on this. What would you like to see, a minimized toolbar to show the recording duration?

Or the entire toolbar gone when recording, then pressing a hotkey to bring it back up to stop recording?

or both?

Let me see know you have in mind.

[michTheBrandofficial]

@i-see-pixels Please reply in time, as I will make a contribution pr soon.

[michTheBrandofficial]

@siddharthvaddem What's your plan about the visual and ux design of the project.

I see there are not many issues regarding that.

[siddharthvaddem]

@michTheBrandofficial I lowkey want a complete UI overhaul haha, but I would want to first prioritize stabilizing and fixing bugs before making improvements.

[michTheBrandofficial]

Alright that's good.

Major The changes to be made are on the UX part. For instance HUD is hard to find when you minimize it while recording.

The biggest I moticed. So, I will be going slow on the ui/ux changes and will keep you updated.

While spotting and fixing bugs.

[lniass]

Glad to see there is an issue open for this.

@michTheBrandofficial , what I imagined and seen in some applications is that during recording the toolbar car appear but the final recording won't show the toolbar. There is normally a way to mark certain components as invisible to recordings. It should not have impacts and is typically a minor change.

@siddharthvaddem , maybe my installation is glitched or I missed seeing the setting to not display the toolbar in final recording? To me this is huge if wanting to record a product demo.

[siddharthvaddem]

@lniass the way full screen recording works is that you cannot isolate and capture everything but something. If you are recording a screen- the suggestion is to minimise the toolbar during the countdown.

When you record just a window or an app. Then the toolbar won't show up in the recording. Since the source of that window alone is being captured.

This is a limitation of the Web APIs we use. But theres workarounds like mentioned above

[lniass]

@siddharthvaddem I didn't think of using the minimize button. That should do. Thanks!