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UX: "DispVM" is Ambiguous #4025

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qubesissues opened this Issue Jun 20, 2018 · 2 comments

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Qubes OS version:

4.0

Affected component(s):

Qubes Manager


Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Go into the "Advanced Settings" tabl of any Qube's settings. Look under "Other" and see "Default DispVM"

Expected behavior:

I would expect this to say "Default DisplayVM" because "DisplayVM" is how the documentation refers to this.

Also it would be nice to have a little info popup saying "What's This?" but that is really an enhancement not a UX bugfix

Actual behavior:

Now it says "DispVM" and that is ambiguous. Myself thought this meant "DisplayVM" and I searched and searched for DisplayVM documentation and I found none. So I didn't know what this was, or why it was there. (Actually I still don't know why it is there but at least I know that it is a DisposableVM)

General notes:

Why is this in Qube Settings anyway? Is there doc on this? I can edit the docs but I need to know the answers first.


Related issues:

This is the kind of confusion that is caused by this ambiguity:
#3992
#3993

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I would expect this to say "Default DisplayVM" because "DisplayVM" is how the documentation refers to this.

No, it doesn't. There's no such thing as a "DisplayVM" in Qubes.

Also it would be nice to have a little info popup saying "What's This?" but that is really an enhancement not a UX bugfix

Duplicate of #2211.

Now it says "DispVM" and that is ambiguous.

No, it's not. The only thing "DispVM" abbreviates is "DisposableVM" (in the context of Qubes).

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andrewdavidwong commented Jun 21, 2018

I would expect this to say "Default DisplayVM" because "DisplayVM" is how the documentation refers to this.

No, it doesn't. There's no such thing as a "DisplayVM" in Qubes.

Also it would be nice to have a little info popup saying "What's This?" but that is really an enhancement not a UX bugfix

Duplicate of #2211.

Now it says "DispVM" and that is ambiguous.

No, it's not. The only thing "DispVM" abbreviates is "DisposableVM" (in the context of Qubes).

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Duplicate of #2211

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andrewdavidwong commented Jun 21, 2018

Duplicate of #2211

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