On Sunday, 4 February 2018 18:10:44 CET Yuraeitha wrote: > Also it's been explicitly said that no Qubes 4 existing features will be > added to the new-old Qube Manager. Which might also hint towards no > changes coming to Qube Manager. If anything, it has to be re-made almost > entirely to work well with Qubes 4+, and currently no one is doing that.
The Qubes Manager is written to Qt4, which is equally outdated as the backends of Qubes it used (3.x). I started a project using Qubes4-api and Qt5 APIs, though. See Ps at the bottom of the mail. [start rant] The biggest issue i ran into is that Qubes4 is just too immature to actually use for more than browsing and email. It was too painful for my desktop full-time work machine. I tried for 2 months, my significant other stated that I had been extraordinary patient with Qubes when I finally stopped using it ;) My problems are widespread; * the admin-api is very immature and poorly implemented. Getting a stack- trace in the server logs and no answer is just unacceptable. Unit tests, anyone? * system-tray is hopelessly broken. Losing apps because they don't show in the system-tray up when you close them was fun! * The design of qubes-daemon is too fragile, it starts/stops VMs and patiently waits and hopes everything will work. I expected a much more 'hands-on' approach (at least for Linux kernels) with much more reporting. I also lost data because apps aren't being quit, they are being killed on VM shutdown. * Why do I see 'lock'-icons for most of my windows in the task-bar? * the documentation is very out-of-date. * I don't know how, it may be fedora packaging, it may be qubes packaging or configs, but the amount of KDE (apps running in dom0) crashes I had in the 2 months of using Qubes is greater than the amount i had in the previous 5 years. This boggles the mind... * The graphics pipeline is hopelessly outdated. Its about a decade behind the industry. * Poor quality of many tools, the icon-copier copying the 22px icon from a VM instead of the 256 one that was also there is just... sad. * The amount of services, bash-scripts, config files, duplicated data in qubes and then again in the system is horrible, under documented mess. * rexecd validation being implemented using bash is a joke (mostly felt because its extremely slow) * total lack of mature end-user-focused tools. Swear to God. There are zero today. * Having nothing but python APIs for your operating system is something that makes no sense. Python was never meant for servers, or even big applications. Finding a full-stack python developer is more rare than finding a Bitcoin C++ developer. end-rant. Qubes is an amazing idea, has some fantastic and genius concepts in it. I hope many of those things will get fixed, although the list has grown so long that I'm not sure it can without being forked. ps. https://github.com/QubesController is the place where I wrote an already pretty decent "Qubes Controller" using the new APis. I'm open to adding anyone to the approved committers list that wants to work on it. -- 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/9861258.aloPWp28RD%40cherry. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
