Qubes OS Summit 2025

Marta "marmarta" Marczykowska-Górecka

Qubes OS UX Lead.

After a varied collection of careers ranging from translation to data analysis, I currently am a Python programmer and UI/UX designer working on making Qubes OS more usable for everyone.


Sessions

09-26
11:05
45min
Qubes OS: Design for Hackers and How To Contribute to GUI Tools
Marta "marmarta" Marczykowska-Górecka

Contributing to GUI tools can be a daunting process: it's not very easy to test things on Qubes OS, the whole OS stack is enormous, and the very idea of designing an interface is quite scary to many developers. It does not have to be that bad, though! In this talk, I will briefly introduce the testing tools Qubes OS has that can be useful for GUI development, explain how to find our design patterns for more consistent GUI applications, and give a brief introduction to Design for Hackers - that is, how to make GUI tools that don't suck without reading a stack of books on design and human brain.

Social Hub Main Room
09-26
16:20
60min
The Future Of Qube Manager: Design Session
Christopher Hunter, Marta "marmarta" Marczykowska-Górecka

The history of Qube(s) Manager is a long and fraught one: for a brief time it was even completely removed, until popular outcry summoned it back. In this session, we (marmarta and Chris Hunter from Ura Design, who is currently working on this issue) would like to discuss with you all possible future and your ideas for how a Qubes OS installation should be managed.

Design session
Social Hub Main Room
09-27
16:15
30min
Even More Control: What's New With Qubes GUI Tools
Marta "marmarta" Marczykowska-Górecka

An overview of the new GUI tools and changes in 4.3

Social Hub Main Room