Feedback / UX Issues with TeamSpeak 6 Client (Screen Sharing & Controls)

[Lyrkas]

I’m using the TeamSpeak 6 client regularly and there are two UX issues that really bother me during screen sharing.

1. Screen sharing view is unnecessarily limited by the chat panel

When you’re in a conversation and someone is sharing their screen, you can switch the stream to fullscreen, but in the normal view the chat panel at the bottom can’t be resized enough.

There is clearly unused space around the screen share. If the chat panel could be dragged further down (for example to only show the last 1–2 messages), the shared screen could be displayed much larger and actually be readable.

Right now the only workaround is fullscreen mode, but then the chat is completely hidden or i need to use three screens. That’s very inconvenient, especially when you want to follow the chat while watching a screen share. A flexible, resizable chat area would massively improve usability here.

2. Control buttons are split across the UI in an unintuitive way

Another thing I don’t understand is the placement of the Mute / Sound Mute / AFK buttons at the top of the window.

Screen sharing controls and other interaction buttons are located bottom-left, while these core voice controls are at the top. This causes constant unnecessary mouse movement:
start screen share → move down,
mute yourself → move up,
adjust something → move down again.

From a UX perspective this makes no sense. These buttons belong together and should be grouped in one consistent control area.

Overall, TeamSpeak 6 is going in a good direction, but these two points seriously hurt the user experience during calls and screen sharing. I hope this feedback helps improve the client.

CLIENT VERSION UPDATE 6.0.0-beta3.4

[KorppuJauho]

You can press button on the right corner. It will create a popup window for the stream and then you can position the stream however you like. However you can’t make separate windows for multiple streams. That would be nice feature.

[Lyrkas]

Thanks, but that’s not my issue.

I know about the pop-out stream, but I’m talking about the standard embedded view. There’s a lot of wasted space around the stream, yet the chat at the bottom can’t be resized further. Because of that, the stream stays too small to see details properly.

I don’t want to pop the stream out. I just want the chat to be draggable further down so the stream can use more space.

[LeonMarcelHD]

Thanks for the feedback, I’ll forward this to discussion.

[Lyrkas]

Thanks! Maybe you could check with the UI team and give an update on what they say about making the stream window bigger, because there’s so much wasted space. Would love to get this fixed soon.