Whonix 15 has been Released

[Patrick]

@MouseFan

What applications are preinstalled by Whonix developers?

This is defined in this file:

anon-meta-packages/debian/control at master · Whonix/anon-meta-packages · GitHub

@MouseFan

I see applications duplicate each other terminal and xterm.

Likely due to technical limitations (dependencies). (Some Qubes package depends on xterm, not Whonix, I think.)

@MouseFan

they will decide themselves that they want these applications or some other. It is not intrusive and I think more secure.

The following applies:

Whonix Default Application Policy

Also:

law of triviality / bikeshed

Law of triviality - Wikipedia http://bikeshed.com

There’s indeed necessarily a degree of arbitrariness. There’s many flavors between minimalism and overload. Due to this and above it’s mostly the top contributors of Whonix who get to “vote”.

Advanced users can install CLI version of Whonix and then either package hardened-desktop-environment-essential-gui among others from anon-meta-packages/debian/control at master · Whonix/anon-meta-packages · GitHub or go for Other Desktop Environments - Whonix.

@MouseFan

Especially while the system theme is a mix of white and black. I understand that system theme is cosmetics, but put yourself in the place of a new user, who is technically not advanced. Whonix deserves to have a beautiful system theme! I do not want to offend the preferences of the developers just said what I think.

Mostly default theme. No theme customization yet due to lack of resources (developers making the changes). See also Xfce theming - a few suggestions - it “only” needs source code contributions.