On 3/16/21 6:48 PM, tetrahedra via qubes-users wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 10:16:04PM +0000, hackerncoder wrote:
>> I have created a survey about colors in Qubes, to help understand
>> users: Are there too many colors? Too few? What do users associate
>> with the colors? what are they used for?
>
> There wasn't any space in the survey for general comments, so let me say
> here: more colors, please!
Well.. Yes, that is one of the things this study is trying to figure
out. If people want more or less or what.
> I find it makes the most sense to be able to
> isolate *both* by threat level and theme, and there simply aren't enough
> colors to do that.
I can say (which I really shouldn't, but I just cannot not do it,
because... yes. Anyways, there is a month until this survey ends, it can
very well change from what I am about to write) that most others agree
that there are too few colors.
> Colors are not just about preventing one VM from pretending to be
> another VM.
>
> Colors also really help prevent *user error*, where you accidentally
> confuse e.g your chat window with Mom with the chat window you use for
> communicating with journalistic sources -- and end up asking Mom to get
> undercover footage from North Korea. Woops!
>
I'll note that one down.
HackerNCoder