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UI and UX: colorized app icons in taskbar instead of colorized locks #967

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psivesely opened this issue Apr 25, 2015 · 8 comments
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UI and UX: colorized app icons in taskbar instead of colorized locks #967

psivesely opened this issue Apr 25, 2015 · 8 comments
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C: gui-virtualization P: major Priority: major. Between "default" and "critical" in severity. release notes This issue should be mentioned in the release notes. ux User experience
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@psivesely
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I'd like if the colorized "app" icons were visible in the taskbar as they are in krunner. Right now, every domU program in the taskbar panel has a colorized lock. This not only looks bad (UI), but changing it would also help users more quickly identify/ remember what is running by not necessarily having to read the text next to it (UX).
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This is actually non trivial feature, because dom0 have no idea what application is running in which window. This would require some additional data passed from VM to the dom0, which means slightly more complicated protocol -> bigger attack surface.
Also some applications do not expose icon name (which can be matched with colorized icon already present in dom0), but only icon bitmap (which need to be processed). Surely we don't want to do the later thing at each window creation.

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This is the top usability issue I am struggling with every day.

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marmarek commented Aug 6, 2015

Yep, really useful feature, I also think the top one in UX category. But releasing working 3.0 (with the current feature set) and Whonix 11 have higher priority...

@marmarek marmarek added the P: major Priority: major. Between "default" and "critical" in severity. label Sep 20, 2015
@marmarek marmarek self-assigned this Sep 20, 2015
marmarek added a commit to marmarek/old-qubes-gui-agent-linux that referenced this issue Sep 20, 2015
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Implement window icon updater (#967)
047b02a 
It is made as separate service to not introduce further complexity into
gui-daemon code. Also using python is much easier - especially because
we already have icons processing code in python.

This feature consists of two parts:
1. icon-sender is started in the VM from /etc/xdg/autostart, and then
connects to dom0 service qubes.WindowIconUpdater (this commit)
2. icon-receiver - implementation of qubes.WindowIconUpdater service for
dom0

QubesOS/qubes-issues#967
marmarek added a commit to marmarek/old-qubes-gui-daemon that referenced this issue Sep 20, 2015
@marmarek
Implement window icon updater (#967)
eb64d93 
It is made as separate service to not introduce further complexity into
gui-daemon code. Also using python is much easier - especially because
we already have icons processing code in python.

This feature consists of two parts:
1. icon-sender is started in the VM from /etc/xdg/autostart, and then
connects to dom0 service qubes.WindowIconUpdater
2. icon-receiver - implementation of qubes.WindowIconUpdater service for
dom0 (this commit)

QubesOS/qubes-issues#967
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Some preliminary implementation done. Commits linked above (branch icon-updater). Will merge it after final R3.0 release (aka R3.1 merge window).
This will needs some testing, especially for different VM types, minimal template (or Whonix based on it), DispVM etc.

marmarek added a commit to marmarek/old-qubes-gui-daemon that referenced this issue Sep 29, 2015
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Merge branch 'icon-updater'
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* icon-updater:
  icon-updater: improve code style, comments, no functional change
  Add R: python-xpyb
  Implement window icon updater (#967)

QubesOS/qubes-issues#967
marmarek added a commit to marmarek/old-qubes-gui-agent-linux that referenced this issue Sep 29, 2015
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Merge branch 'icon-updater'
c6f8b0e 
* icon-updater:
  Add python-xpyb dependency for icon-updater
  Implement window icon updater (#967)

QubesOS/qubes-issues#967
@marmarek marmarek added the release notes This issue should be mentioned in the release notes. label Nov 5, 2015
@marmarek marmarek closed this as completed Nov 5, 2015
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What is the status of this? I am on R3.1 testing and still have colored locks rather then colorized app icons.

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Always? See #1495

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adrelanos commented Mar 21, 2016 via email

@andrewdavidwong andrewdavidwong added the ux User experience label Dec 24, 2016
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This used to work for me on Q4R3, but it seems like this regresses as I switch my vms to fedora-26 template.

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