Provide a GPU acceleration toggle

[DemiMarie]

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The problem you're addressing (if any)

Users need to be able to control which qubes have access to GPU acceleration. While GPU acceleration in Qubes OS is intended to be reasonably secure once implemented, it still introduces extra attack surface and so will be disabled by default.

This can be implemented even before GPU acceleration is — enabling GPU acceleration will be a no-op in this case.

The solution you'd like

A toggle in the GUI to control GPU acceleration.

The value to a user, and who that user might be

Users who wish to use GPU acceleration will be able to do so, once GPU acceleration has been implemented.

Blocked on #8552

[marmarta]

Creating this before GPU acceleration exists is a bad idea (why have an option that misleads the user?).

[marmarta]

Make an issue once this becomes a real toggle to make.

[DemiMarie]

Creating this before GPU acceleration exists is a bad idea (why have an option that misleads the user?).

This issue was intended to describe something that needs to be done eventually. It should have been labeled as “blocked” to clarify that. Some other bug tracking systems, such as Bugzilla, have a concept of one issue being blocked on another, which would make this obvious.

[andrewdavidwong]

It should have been labeled as “blocked” to clarify that.

Can just use S: blocked for that.

Some other bug tracking systems, such as Bugzilla, have a concept of one issue being blocked on another, which would make this obvious.

Can just use the S: blocked label and say in the issue what it's blocked by. If the other (blocking) issue doesn't exist yet, which seems to be the case here, then that feature wouldn't help you anyway.