On Thursday, 30 November 2017 03:30:35 CET Unman wrote: > I think I must be missing your point - it might be clearer if you gave > examples of tasks that these user interfaces would serve.
I think we have some great examples already which could use more love. The devices app, which allows you to assign drives (partitions really) to qubes. It is currently less than complete. Not only does it have bugs (shutting down a qube and starting it again makes a logical drive never be shown there again). But more importantly it just adds a new device in /devs/ without mounting it. It should allow a user to the first time select a qubes dir to mount it on. The goal; to avoid the user having to use the CLI. But also the Qubes-create-new VM GUI app is rather badly designed. It uses lots of terms like ‘appvm’ and similar, which is Ok. The problem is that none of these terms are explained. You have to go to browse on the internet to find out what those mean. It would be quite easy to add documentation inside the app in order to explain it. Maybe add a graphic-widget that shows not just the list of template VMs, but also which VMs are based on it. Because honestly, what a user wants is likely “make another VM like Work”. But then they have to first find out that “Work” is based on a named template, is an appvm and remember that and open the create-vm screen to base it on the same... In short, the tools are designed by technical people to do what they already know how to do. They are not designed for new users that need to discover the system at the same time as they get tasks done. Ths is just an example or two, I hope it explains my thinking. -- Tom Zander Blog: https://zander.github.io Vlog: https://vimeo.com/channels/tomscryptochannel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/1634249.gHXZ37I4Bz%40strawberry. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
