Sneak peek of the new Qubes Devices GUI

[bks]

@alimirjamali

None of the above. Open an issue in Github and complain about the small size of the qubes-devices.svg icon and lack of PNG renders for devices.

I don’t want to fight it forever, so I created a Github account to submit a ticket but it got caught in a spam filter and never showed up, then I got locked out of my account because of VPN.

If someone else can submit it please do, thanks. you can generalize as “make PNG renders for applet icons”.

[alimirjamali]

This is the Forum post (long thread)

Programming approaches to Alternative Appmenu icon effects, Setting default workspace per qube, Additional label colors

tl;dr: This is a work in progress. qubes-label is renamed to qubes-label-tt and qvm-appmenus-tweak-tools is renamed to qvm-appmenus-tt. Once our job is done, Independent and proper community guidelines will be posted with references to this thread. Please read the entire thread for more information. Original thread: I have been working on a tool to create additional custom labels and colors for Qubes OS. So far, I have created a rapid prototype to manage labels in Qubes OS database to analyze …

This is the link to the repository: GitHub - alimirjamali/personal-qubesos: Personal tools, configs, customization and tweaks for Qubes OS

If you are looking only for more colors (with default icons), the qubes-label-tt is sufficient.

[alimirjamali]

I would be more than glad to open the relevant issue. But before that, I would like to be certain that my intuition was right and not a false positive. Since I do not have i3 installed, I appreciate if you could check the following:

The previous icon is a part of Adwaita icon set which is most probably present in your system. The properly sized SVG icon is:

/usr/share/icons/Adwaita/scalable/devices/media-removable.svg

If you replace the

/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/qubes-devices.svg

with the Adwaita’s media-removable.svg icon and it works well (after restarting Qubes Devices GUI), then I was right and I can go forward with Github issue. Otherwise I was totally wrong.

[bks]

@alimirjamali

I would like to be certain that my intuition was right and not a false positive

confirmed, I just replaced it and now the icon looks the same size as the others. I will use this “workaround” for now, let’s hope it’s solved at the core of the issue eventually.

[alimirjamali]

@bks

let’s hope it’s solved at the core of the issue eventually.

Done:

Qubes Devices GUI icon is rendered tiny on i3wm

But please take into consideration that this is an i3wm bug as well. It should be able to upscale small SVG icons to proper size. So if you are also on i3wm forum, post the issue there as well.

[alimirjamali]

BTW, Marmarta submitted a patch yesterday. It is a temporal solution (according to commit message). Since the backend is going to go through some changes. But the Qubes Devices GUI should look like this after the commit is merged and delivered to users:

Instead of mentioning the generic notation of block devices after the device, it is added after the host. I find it more elegant and pleasing. But I am going to axe the empty () after device root as i do not like it.