Make usage of Break-Out-Rooms Quick'n'Easy

[gjaekel]

I have an idea to ease the handling of break-out rooms by using drag'n'drop (and allow this action for any participant).

User Story:

• Let the participants get together on a room as usual, lets say at 'meeting'

• In Tile View (and maybe also on the side bar), everybody is able to drag his own "window" and drop it on anybody other.

• On this action, with the technical means of the existing Breakout Room feature, a new breakout subroom is created and the two participants are passed to it.

• It should be also possible

  • to drag another participant and drop to oneself with the same semantics.
  • to mark a couple of participants as a selection, then drag and drop to oneself.
  • to drag one or a selection to any other for owners of the Moderator role.

• The name of the breakout room should use a random postfix to the original one (as already used in Breakout Rooms, as I remember)

• If the participant leave the breakout room, they should re-join the main room.

Because this a new, white area for me, I started to play around with drag'n'drop as a POC at #220

[gjaekel]

The drag'n'drop pattern might be also used to simply re-arrange the order (i.e. exchange the positions) of participant windows in the Tilde View - I think this is also a very intuitive and common used UI pattern.

If we offer this also, the breakout action trigger might be modified, e.g by require to hold <ctrl> on mouse button release. IMHO, this is in good conformity with common UI guidelines.