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Folders in Qube Manager #4562

Open vladionescu opened 5 years ago

vladionescu commented 5 years ago

Qubes OS version:

R4.0

Affected component(s):

qubes-manager

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

N/A

Expected behavior:

The ability to create arbitrarily named folders in the Qubes Manager table, and then be able to put items from the table into folders, including other folders. Folders should be collapsible so only the folder name and an indicator icon/arrow is displayed.

Example use case: I can create a Whonix folder and put anon-whonix, whonix-gw-14, whonix-ws-14, whonix-ws-14-dvm, and sys-whonix into that folder then collapse it.

Benefits: Tidying up and organizing Qubes Manager, for those people who choose to use it.

Actual behavior:

N/A

General notes:

I realize there has been discussion about this in the past but it has been both less focused and shutdown because Qubes Manager was going away. Now that it is here to stay for the foreseeable future, it is worth reconsidering.

Related issues:

2946

andrewdavidwong commented 5 years ago

Duplicate of #2646

andrewdavidwong commented 5 years ago

This appears to be a duplicate of an existing issue. If so, please comment on the appropriate existing issue instead. If you believe this is not really a duplicate, please leave a comment briefly explaining why. We'll be happy to take another look and, if appropriate, reopen this issue. Thank you.

andrewdavidwong commented 1 year ago

I'm reopening this because it was originally closed as a duplicate of #2646, which was subsequently closed for being over-broad and under-defined, whereas this issue is less broad and a slightly more well-defined than #2646, since this issue focuses only on having folders in the Qube Manager.

Nonetheless, my reopening this should not be interpreted as advocating the enhancement request in any way. It's still completely up to the devs (mainly @marmarta, I'm guessing?) whether this should be closed as "won't do," for example.

NOTREALJUSTROBOT commented 1 year ago

Please also allow the ability to password protect folders.

ghost commented 1 year ago

Please also allow the ability to password protect folders.

This tracker is more about grouping VM's into "folders" within Qubes Qube Manager.

NOTREALJUSTROBOT commented 1 year ago

Please also allow the ability to password protect folders.

This tracker is more about grouping VM's into "folders" within Qubes Qube Manager.

Yea I understand. I still would like that feature to password protect folders for the qube manager. For example, having a folder for all of the offline vaults and being able to password protect them. Also to color code the folders like you can qubes.

andrewdavidwong commented 1 year ago

For example, having a folder for all of the offline vaults and being able to password protect them.

It's unclear what this would mean. For example, taking your suggestion literally would not provide any security benefits, since even if the folder were password-protected in the Qube Manager, an unauthorized user could simply use qvm-ls to list them on the command line and qvm-start to start them. If you meant that each qube in the password-protected folder should also be password-protected itself, then that's #1293, and that's what would be providing the security. Password-protecting the folder wouldn't provide any security. Even if it did, it would be a separate feature request and is off-topic in this issue. (Every issue must be about a single, actionable thing.)