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Shorter and less technical labels for device picker

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Feature request

Which Nextcloud Version are you currently using:
Nextcloud Hub 9 (31.0.0 dev)

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
This is an issue especially with microphone as it’s less obvious to check than the camera.

My list looks like this:

  • Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller Digital Microphone
  • Monitor of Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller Headphones
  • Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller Headphones Stereo Microphone
  • None

We already cut it a bit via name-parts__last but that always only seems to take the last word (at least in my case), so there’s 2 entries with "Microphone".

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Describe the solution you'd like
What would be ideal is:

  • Internal microphone
  • Headphones microphone
  • None

The "Monitor of" device basically never makes sense, I don’t know what it is. And the whole part of Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller is just technical jargon which does not need to be shown.

Describe alternatives you've considered
A very simple improvement would be to organize what is shown in front and behind, e.g. in my case it would already be a massive improvement to change it around like this:

  • Digital Microphone (Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller)
  • Headphones (Monitor of Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller) – although this one seems useless?
  • Headphones Stereo Microphone (Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller)
  • None

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Research direction

Start by locating the device picker and the existing name-parts__last handling mentioned in the issue. Compare its current microphone and monitor labels with the requested shorter names, then verify that the picker distinguishes internal, headphones, and unavailable devices without exposing unnecessary technical text.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
audio-video-rtc, frontend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
38/100

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