Submitting code suggestions / more qubes colors and color blind mode

So i am a none coder, but I can certainly tell AI what I want. I don’t have a git hub and never really planned to have a git hub account. Is there a way or a place to just submit ideas with the code. I would love to see qubes have more qubes colors and a color blind mode. So I asked claude to do it. Maybe some one wants to pick this up and see if it works. Claude did tell me there are already git-hub items for this. Maybe some one could shuttle it over. Like I said I don’t have an account. Apparently I can’t just attach a python file here, I get why, or I would.

@unman

Don’t :slight_smile:

You can browse current issues without a Github account. Instead of producing vibe-coded stuff of low quality that will end up ignored, you can provide your DIY user feedback (high quality).

Take a look at this:

To me, it implies that vibecoding is not allowed.

I think this is not the correct interpretation. The guidance clearly
states that “If these contributions are of high quality, they will be
welcome”, and Regardless of how your content was created, you will be
considered the fully-accountable author of that content, and you are
responsible for reviewing & fixing such output before submitting it."

The problem here is that @Teljkon, by their own account is a “none
coder” and is not able to review or fix the output. It’s hard to see how
they would be able to go forward unless some other user is prepared to
take on the reviewing and editing task before submission. Is any one
prepared to do that?

Note also that there are at least 4 open issues relating to window
decoration color:
#6752 Add 3 new colors, update existing 8 colors
#7736 Custom qubes colors
#2523 Add seven new colors
#6526 Colorblind-friendly window decorations

Work on those issues should be reviewed before considering another
contribution.

I never presume to speak for the Qubes team.
When I comment in the Forum I speak for myself.

More colors are very much needed. For example, I don’t care about colors indicating trust levels. What I care about is quickly differentiating qubes based on their color, which is currently not practicable due to too little colors being available.

I use KDE. It’s relatively easy there to create (what KDE calls)
“Activities” with different wallpapers, and force qubes to
specific Activities. This makes it easy to differentiate qubes by
decoration color and the color/detail on the background. (And, for
some users, by checking the name of the Activity - I have a shortcut
to do this.)

I never presume to speak for the Qubes team.
When I comment in the Forum I speak for myself.

So wait your dom0 uses KDE. I actually really like KDE way more than XFCE I looked up how to do this. Seems easy enough. Is it more bug prone? Hmm something to think about. Is the attack surface concerns significant enough to avoid this? I am security focused but seems to be the shortest route. Not, always a good thing :face_with_diagonal_mouth: :upside_down_face:

Ah, So I guess the question stands is there anyone that wants to look at claude’s work and do something with it. I would prefer to not become responsible for another project I have plenty on the shelf already. It seems to be a common request so it may be worth doing. Sorry I can’t help more.

If you hit any problems with KDE, we should be able to fix them for
you. The major issue (blank/invisible icons in the panel) has been
fixed. Otherwise it’s much easier to work with and definitely a
better match for Qubes.
I havent encountered any bugs. It’s running in dom0 and obviously
brings a number of packages with it, so the attack surface may be
raised, but is no ore available than with Xfce.

I’m somewhat over loaded, and there are existing offerings in GitHub -
it may be interesting to see what overlap there is.

GNOME and KDE have millions of lines of code compared to XFCE.