Xfce theming - a few suggestions

[Patrick]

@onion_knight

why not adding desktop icons?

Not sure anymore, I think we didn’t figure out how to add them by default without a confusing warning when using them for the first time. Also when applications changed and desktop icons broke, users got concerned. Maybe we could resurrect these packages if anyone has ideas:

• https://github.com/Whonix/whonix-gw-desktop-shortcuts
• https://github.com/Whonix/whonix-ws-desktop-shortcuts

@onion_knight

Default /home/user environment has only the Desktop directory. Why not adding the classical XFCE4 default user directories also during build? Also something expected by most users I would think:
Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, Public, Templates, Videos

There should be at least /home/user/Downloads but it is broken due to this bug:

bug: not all files form /etc/skel are copied to /home/user

Not all files from /etc/skel are currently copied to /home/user. This is because package anon-base-files which creates user user and thereby runs useradd which copies /etc/skel is installed before usability-misc. In result folder /home/user/Downloads is no longer created by default in Whonix 14. (A long standing, non-critical, non-release-blocking bug.) Installing any packages shipping any /etc/skel files before anon-base-files in build-steps.d/ 1700_install-packages would not be a great sol…

As for the others: there’s never been a question / feature request about those. I personally always found these too much. When doing backups, never knowing if something ended up there. Too much since not everything happens in the a single Whonix VM.