Major UX Pain Points

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More examples: Run terminal/file manager/custom program (widget/QM/QM); check CPU usage/RAM usage/Disk usage (widget/widget/QM). Adding everything to the widget will make it cluttered though.

I feel that such separation is pretty arbitrary and should be reconsidered. It would be better to have sorting in Qube Manager by several fields simultaneously, e.g., State → Name. Such sorting would reproduce the Qubes Domains widget (i.e., will show the running VMs on top) and will allow to have more customizable columns.

In addition, the order of the qubes is different in the widget and QM (unless you use sorting by name. I prefer sorting by TemplateVM). It does not look like a simple problem to solve, because auto syncronization of sort order would probably be quite unexpected for users. Also, I don’t like the very fact that it is a widget. I have many important things in the system tray (instant messengers, battery etc.) and this adds unnecessary clutter.
(Offtopic: Same for disk usage; couldn’t it be an item/plugin for the xfce-panel?)
Note that those are just my preferences and I do not expect that everyone shares them. A poll would probably help, after we collect enough pain points.

Related issue. Another one. Third one. But it does not solve the issue when opening links and apps in disposableVMs.

  1. @alexander wrote:

Also the backlight of my display does not turn off if Screensafer gets enabled.

Pretty wasteful… Corresponding issue. Another one.

  1. Time synchronization issues. Every time after waking up from suspend, the time in all VMs is wrong (the same as it was before suspend). Manual updating it with qvm-run qube_name 'sudo qvm-sync-clock' helps, but is annoying. If I have no Internet upon wake-up, the time is wrong also in Dom0 and the above synchronization does not help. Related issue. Another clock sync issue.
    (Offtopic: this issue can probably be closed.)

  2. After every backup with GUI, I have to manually start backup-restore to verify the backup. Very time consuming, should be automatic. Related issue.

  3. “Needs restart” icon was removed from Disposable VMs, which makes it unclear whether they are up to date or should be used with care.

  4. Lack of automatic updates.

I also updated the first post by adding more links to the issues.

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