Create a new Device UX flow

[marmarta]

Brief summary

Current device UX: not great.
Desired state: better.

Main pain points:

• USB storage devices are a UX hell: they appear in the widget in multiple places, it's definitely not simple to decide what to connect to a qube
• it's easy to misclick something in the widget
• notifications are confusing and not very helpful
• it's very easy to not connect one or more of the webcam/microphone pair when doing a call
• devices are confusing and badly named
• it would be nice to decide which qubes can get device attachments at all

[marmarta]

Current early prototype: https://design.penpot.app/#/view/94d0bf99-a273-8157-8003-202ca9b178da?page-id=8a7ef8a5-cf6f-807c-8003-2165f016cdc1&section=interactions&index=0&share-id=52961d58-0a92-80c2-8003-285ff4e779c2

[DemiMarie]

Current early prototype: https://design.penpot.app/#/view/94d0bf99-a273-8157-8003-202ca9b178da?page-id=8a7ef8a5-cf6f-807c-8003-2165f016cdc1&section=interactions&index=0&share-id=52961d58-0a92-80c2-8003-285ff4e779c2

I’d like to see some more separation between the qube names, to reduce the chances of accidentally clicking on the wrong qube.

[jamke]

Thanks for the preview.
Is that a future default font for R4.2 or images are just stretched vertically?
Spaces are a bit off, especially on the 3-rd image.

[jamke]

An idea: per-device favorite qube list, even automatic (see at the end).

If user has devices webcamera, usb printer, flask disk, usb-ethernet they probably want to connect each of them the same qube or qubes, e.g.:

1. skype and whatsapp qubes, or some videoconf qube
2. printer qube with printer proprietary drivers
3. some usb-storage qube that manages flash drives safely without connecting block device to more valuable offline qubes.
4. some qube that should get network access.

So, adding all these qubes to favorites will be not great, it will make chances to connect wrong device to wrong qube quite high, including adding network adapter to always-offline qubes and vaults.

Seems better to provide submenu for each device a bit differently, on PER-DEVICE basis.

In can be done automatically without user actions - user connects some device to some qube(s) several times and this/these qube(s) are in the top part of the qubes list for this device, maybe also with different distinctive font color or background.

[marmarta]

The problem with per-device favorites is simple: what is a device? There is no good way of actually ID-ing a device; the best we have is what the device introduces itself as, which can be nothing (for many usb sticks it's like that), and device type; I'm think right now a "per device-type" favorites could work.

[marmarta]

Thanks for the preview. Is that a future default font for R4.2 or images are just stretched vertically? Spaces are a bit off, especially on the 3-rd image.

That's just a mockup, using Source Sans Pro because it's convenient.