Signal-desktop: Option to rotate video call picture (manually)

[MerlinZero]

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Feature Request:

An option to rotate the video call picture of the other caller (incoming video) by 90° (clockwise or counterclockwise).

Reason:

If the other caller is using the mobile app and rotates his phone physically to landscape, the picture of the video call on the desktop is not displayable in landscape mode but remains in portrait mode and hence is hard to watch.
It would maybe suffice to add a menu item in the "view" menu (where "toggle fullscreen" is located) to rotate the local video call picture 90° counterclockwise (and with every click another 90° ccw), as imho mobile phones tend to get rotated ccw by 90° for capturing video (because the phone buttons on the right side are then on the top).

Platform Info

Signal Version:

1.36.3 (deb)

Operating System:

Ubuntu 20.4

[MerlinZero]

Oh look, I just found the developer tools :D
And in there the CSS can be edited for the ".module-ongoing-call__remote-video-enabled" and inserted a "transform: rotate(90deg);" and it's done :+1:
Kudos to you devs, that it is even possible to edit the style sheets. I'm very happy that I can do it myself for now and it saves me some "desktop-rotation-workaround" trouble. None the less I would fancy a rotation button :) (and therefore do not close the request)

Edit: For now I could not find the right css element to adjust fullscreen view to expand the video to it's full height and width. It's rotated in fullscreen :+1: but it remains somewhat small.

[mikeweilgart]

This is a major usability issue for desktop-to-mobile video calls, actually.

[wielandp]

I agree. I don't want to explain my parents how to change CSS in devTools :-)

[Symmetronic]

I find this to be quite an important issue as well. But I would rather prefer a solution to the underlying orientation problem instead of a button to manually rotate the image.