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Preloaded disposables are not explained on GUI tools that shows it #10639

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@ben-grande

Qubes OS release

Qubes OS 4.3

Brief summary

My initial idea was that such thing would not be necessary, I thought that by making it internal, people would just let it be. I guess the combination of curious people that do not read the release notes is very high. I think this will become worse once the there is no more preloaded disposable in release notes, and a new release comes some time from now.

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  1. See paused disposable qubes in the system tray, shown as internal, what does that mean?
  2. See internal qubes after enabling it in qube manager, what are those paused disposable qubes?

Expected behavior

User understands that these qubes are manager by the system and what they are.

Actual behavior

User knows it is manager by the system, but is still curious to know what it is and how to control it.

Additional information

It is kinda limited what I can do:

  • system tray tooltip can have markup (links), but leaving the widget hides the tooltip, meaning it is not clickable.
  • qube manager doesn't have tooltips on the rows

Therefore, some tools can have a large explanation and pointers, while other tools can only have a brief text "Preloaded disposable", which will be let to the user to search on the docs for that string.

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C: Qubes GUI toolsThis issue pertains to Qubes GUI tools such as the Qube Manager and Qubes widgets.P: defaultPriority: default. Default priority for new issues, to be replaced given sufficient information.affects-4.3This issue affects Qubes OS 4.3.diagnosedTechnical diagnosis of this issue has been performed.pr submittedA pull request has been submitted for this issue.uxThis issue pertains to the user experience (UX) in Qubes OS.

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