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
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.
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.
An overview of the new GUI tools and changes in 4.3