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List:       qubes-devel
Subject:    Re: [qubes-devel] DispVM design decisions for Qubes 4.0
From:       Andrew Clausen <andrew.p.clausen () gmail ! com>
Date:       2016-05-13 14:26:18
Message-ID: CAAXZBWJ=bn6vms=dy+TZ-GuWd3GY1YEY7Qy9Fneuxas=Yu=Nmg () mail ! gmail ! com
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Hi Marek et al,

On 13 May 2016 at 15:18, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
<marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com> wrote:
> > > How to handle those? One more qrexec service (and context menu
> > > item)? That would make even more complex UI...
> > > 
> > 
> > We already have a drop-down menu, a button, and a right-click context
> > menu for attachments in Thunderbird (with the Qubes Attachments
> > extension). We could add menu options for opening attachments in
> > different DispVMs with commonly-used presets and user-definable
> > entries. For example:
> > 
> > Open in DispVM
> > =>Open in online DispVM
> > =>Open in offline DispVM
> > =>Open in printer DispVM
> > =>Open in PDF DispVM
> 
> One more click... And I guess it may be too much for average user - not
> only to choose which files open in DispVM instead of in that VM
> directly, but now to choose which DispVM flavor. Every time.

I expect a simple UI can make this quite easy:

(1) It doesn't make sense to open links in offline VMs, or PDFs in
online VMs.  Can't some simple rules cut down the number of choices?

(2) If there are only one or two relevant choices (e.g. printer vs
offline VM for a PDF), then you wouldn't need a nested menu, you could
just include two items:

  Open in offline DispVM
  Open in printer DispVM

(3) Another possibility is to have a default VM for each use case
(e.g. offline VM for a PDF), and allow the user to either go with the
default or choose manually:

  Open in offline DispVM
  Open in another VM...

Kind regards,
Andrew

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