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marmarek opened this issue Mar 8, 2015 · 37 comments · Fixed by QubesOS/qubes-core-admin#656, QubesOS/qubes-core-admin-client#334 or QubesOS/qubes-manager#406
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Allow users to add free-form text to qubes (for descriptions, notes, comments, remarks, reminders, etc.) #899

marmarek opened this issue Mar 8, 2015 · 37 comments · Fixed by QubesOS/qubes-core-admin#656, QubesOS/qubes-core-admin-client#334 or QubesOS/qubes-manager#406
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C: manager/widget This issue pertains to the Qube Manager, widgets, and related GUI tools. P: critical Priority: critical. Between "major" and "blocker" in severity. ux This issue pertains to the user experience (UX) in Qubes OS.

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marmarek commented Mar 8, 2015

Reported by Oleg Artemiev grey olli on 12 Sep 2014 08:14 UTC
It could be usefull to have a text description for a VM in its
properties to document changes/difference.
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/qubes-users/uYCcOqIeF5k/discussion

Migrated-From: https://wiki.qubes-os.org/ticket/899
@marmarek marmarek added this to the Release 2.1 (post R2) milestone Mar 8, 2015
@marmarek marmarek added bug C: manager/widget This issue pertains to the Qube Manager, widgets, and related GUI tools. P: minor Priority: minor. Below "default" in severity. The lowest priority. labels Mar 8, 2015
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marmarek commented Mar 8, 2015

Modified by marmarek on 12 Sep 2014 08:14 UTC

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marmarek commented Mar 8, 2015

Comment by joanna on 12 Sep 2014 09:25 UTC
Would be more logical to do that in R3, as part of our qubes.xml revamping.

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I would like to work on this issue (see https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/qubes-devel/t32l-0BjlLs).

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@bnvk is working on new Qubes Manager, please coordinate.

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Jeeppler commented Jul 26, 2016 •
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Is this still relevant, after decomposing the Qubes Manager? How would it look like? Would it be something like a qvm-description tool? I would love to have a VM description.

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On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 02:10:35PM -0700, Jeppler wrote:

Is this still relevant, after decomposing the Qubes Manager? How would it look like? Would it be something like a qvm-description tool? I would love to have a VM description.

I think this may be simply a VM property, accessible using qvm-prefs.
How to present it in GUI is unrelated to this ticket.

Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
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Perfect. @marmarek are you considering to implement it as qvm-prefs property in Q R4?

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It's worth thinking about how this is related to #865, i.e., defining and disambigutating these possible properties of VMs:

  • Description
  • Tag
  • Attribute

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Jeeppler commented Aug 4, 2016

I would like to see "Tags" the plural form to do something like: -dev -> tags: work, project

It would be nice to have a "last started" property. This would be helpful to see if the machines are used regularly or have been used a long time ago.

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Jeeppler commented Aug 4, 2016

What would be the "Attribute" property? It seems a little bit generic.

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andrewdavidwong commented Aug 5, 2016 •
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Yes, "last started" would be useful, especially when trying to decide whether a VM needs to be included in a backup. (If the "last started" date is the same or earlier than the "last backup" date, then it probably doesn't need to be backed up again.)

But this is different from a "VM description," so here's a new issue for it: #2230

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marmarek commented Aug 6, 2016

I would like to see "Tags" the plural form to do something like: -dev -> tags: work, project

Yes, that's how it is in Qubes 4.0.

What would be the "Attribute" property? It seems a little bit generic.

That's generic name for tag with some value (so, not only "present"/"absent") ;)

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Ok. The core-admin API patch is merged (this is why the @qubesos-bot closed the issue). The issue has to be reopened.

Time to finish the core-admin-client PR

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fixes: QubesOS/qubes-issues#899

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fixes: QubesOS/qubes-issues#899

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fixes: QubesOS/qubes-issues#899

requires: QubesOS/qubes-core-admin-client#334
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fixes: QubesOS/qubes-issues#899

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fixes: QubesOS/qubes-issues#899

requires: QubesOS/qubes-core-admin-client#334
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fixes: QubesOS/qubes-issues#899

Additional options to skip legacy backup tests or super slow tests
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