Replacing Dolphin on Whonix-ws

[Sec Tester]

I Really dislike Dolphin. Thumbnail previews dont even seem to work, and its kinda annoying to use. I'd like to swap it out for something lite and simple (like the fedora-23 file browser)

Just wanted to check thats not going to break anything?

Looking at the package removal list, i think it probably will...

[entr0py]

Sec Tester:

I see you're still intent on breaking your templates. I think you want to get comfortable with `apt-rdepends`.

try: `apt-rdepends -r dolphin`

Looks like most of those packages are meta-packages but I wouldn't waste time trying to figure it out. Just leave it and install nautilus (gnome file manager) if that's what you want. thunar (xfce) is also popular.

Before you install, type: `apt-get -s install nautilus` and make sure you want to pull in all those gnome/gtk dependencies.

As for Dolphin, I love it's customizability. The thumbnails are likely disabled as a security precaution. I was about to say that it was restricted by apparmor but it looks like there isn't a profile - strange, kind of remember one in the past.

[Andrew David Wong]

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On 2016-11-17 22:07, Sec Tester wrote:
> I Really dislike Dolphin. Thumbnail previews dont even seem to work, and its kinda annoying to use. I'd like to swap it out for something lite and simple (like the fedora-23 file browser)
>

Thumbnail previews are intentionally disabled by default as a security measure. If an adversary crafts a malicious thumbnail, automatically parsing it could compromise the VM, even if you intended to delete the file without ever opening it (or open it only in a DispVM). Thumbnail previews are also disabled by default in Nautilus, the default file manager in the Fedora template. This may be an acceptable risk in some VMs, so you're free to enable them in either case.

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Andrew David Wong (Axon)
Community Manager, Qubes OS
https://www.qubes-os.org
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[Patrick Schleizer]

Nautilus previews are still enabled unfortunately. TODO:

https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/1108

Dolphin [and Nautilus] previews are disabled in Qubes-Whonix, but not in
other Qubes VMs. TODO:

https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/1885

Help welcome!

Cheers,
Patrick

[Andrew David Wong]

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Those issues are for Debian and Whonix. File previews in the Fedora templates have been disabled for a long time now.

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Andrew David Wong (Axon)
Community Manager, Qubes OS
https://www.qubes-os.org
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