What's new in Qubes OS 4.1 (alpha)

quququbebebe · July 9, 2021, 12:44pm

This is a place to share and discuss what’s has being added lately in Qubes OS 4.1 alpha

quququbebebe · July 9, 2021, 12:46pm

New icons since several days has you can see :

quququbebebe · July 9, 2021, 1:02pm

Also this good one since two weeks : Add "restart" to Domain Widget · Issue #6249 · QubesOS/qubes-issues · GitHub

But I don’t know why I can’t take a screenshot of of the domain widget to share it here

51lieal · July 9, 2021, 1:07pm

i like current sys icon, but new icon is more precise as os is called ‘qube’

51lieal · July 9, 2021, 1:10pm

take pict with phone or install standalone ‘qubes os’ then take pict from there

deeplow · July 9, 2021, 6:26pm

Maybe this belongs in #general-discussion as it may interest everyone? Anyways, @quququbebebe feel free to move it back or revert the title if you disagree.

deeplow · July 9, 2021, 6:27pm

This probably comes from here:

github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues

Extend Cute Qubes icon family with qute-crown and qute-sushi icons

opened 09:28PM - 24 Jun 21 UTC

ninavizz

C: artwork C: manager/widget P: default T: enhancement release notes ux

**The problem you're addressing (if any)** dom0 is the most powerful VM within …Qubes. As such, it deserves a little royal treatment. However, with the addition of the qute-crown, the "Qute Qube" family's conceptual direction of communicating vague relational concepts is now muddled by the "star-qube" for Service VMs. As such, we now have the `qute-sushi` as an abstraction of "bringing-to" as a sort of junction-type block. These abstractions will hopefully be made clearer with illustrations that will be added to the docs for the 1st rc for 4.1 **Describe the solution you'd like** ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/8262612/123857994-d8b15280-d8d7-11eb-87da-9b2c32d0062a.png) **Where is the value to a user, and who might that user be?** A visual differentiator between "everyday" qubes users interact with, and the king of all king qubes. **Describe alternatives you've considered** Marta had previously created a version of the Black qube with an exclamation point over it—but that communicated more of an "Error State" semiotic. The crown on the qute-qube icon does not speak to any other common semiotic in computing, while still speaking to concepts of hierarchy. **Additional context** It's qute! **Relevant [documentation](https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/) you've consulted** n/a **Related, [non-duplicate](https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/reporting-bugs/#new-issues-should-not-be-duplicates-of-existing-issues) issues** #5676

ninavizz · July 9, 2021, 9:17pm

Padlocks in Mac and Windows systems tend to indicate that a part of the UI is locked from editing (read/write modality). The rounded-padlock in Qubes, also speaks to Whonix. In an OS like Qubes, where the whole thing is all about security, iconography to better speak to the mental model of Qubes as well… “a series of qubes,” felt like it could give an intuitive boost to reinforcing the core mental model of compartmentalization. Glad you likey!

quOSuser · July 10, 2021, 9:57am

A nice template downloader UI is available too.
Type qvm-template-gui in your dom0 terminal to start it

marmarek · July 11, 2021, 2:29am

There is a draft of release notes here: Add R4.1 release notes by marmarek · Pull Request #828 · QubesOS/qubes-doc · GitHub

But most of the items are still just in issues: Issues · QubesOS/qubes-issues · GitHub