BOUNTY: Web GUI reprogramming

iFloris

This may or not consume all my time, I'll see what can be done, as I said, I'm tired, this is a great effort for me, I admire the pfSense team for their work..

As a fellow user, I can say that I admire your work. Thanks for the effort you are putting into your vision of a next gen web interface for pfsense.

kelsen

I've started a new theme, this time I forked master branch.
There is no javascript and nothing else that could disrupt the WebGUI and other themes, it looks similar to the metrolab theme except the menu and ícons.
The theme Metrolab is with some bug and will be stopped for now, until I have time and courage to remake it in the master branch or someone willing to help.

burnsl

I am curious where this project is, as i think the work is awesome!

Very eager to use this multi-column GUI.

Is it stable and available yet?

charlie0440

@burnsl it is in:

pfsense 2.2 under a new theme called pfsense_ng_fs (obviously not released yet and no snapshots are currently available). It is also in a new theme "code-blue_fs" which is awaiting review and may be merged in time for 2.2

Alternatively go back to this post and you will find some instructions on how to install it on top of your 2.1 pfsense: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,48140.msg369658.html#msg369658

Mr. Jingles

I think I found a bug ;D

I installed it per the instructions on page 13 of this thread. After that, the traffic shaper wouldn't update anymore (Status/queues), it just showed 'loading' for minutes (in IE10, FF25, Opera). Switching back to the default 'skin' gave the updating of the traffic queues back.

charlie0440

@Hollander - indeed you have. Think I have found the cause just got to figure out how to fix it.

charlie0440

@Hollander, should be fixed, please test https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12367642/myTheme.zip

Install as before:

download zip
tar -xvzf myTheme.tar.gz
cd myTheme/
scp -r * root@pfsenseIPaddress:/

#example: scp -r * root@192.168.1.1:/

Mr. Jingles

@charlie0440:

@Hollander - indeed you have. Think I have found the cause just got to figure out how to fix it.

Well if it took you 37 minutes to figure out how to fix it and fix it, then I'd would say: don't let us call you, you call us ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

It appears to working now, so thank you very, very much :P

c0urier

@charlie0440

I didn't notice this until now - But some of the widgets are not updating on one of my installs. I only became aware of this, when I made a clean install on another box, and install your theme, there I saw that all widgets were updating (Gateways, Firewall, Interface statistics etc). But on my old install these are not updating, actually the only thing updating is the Traffic graphs, Uptime, Current date/Time, MBUF Usage, Load average, CPU usage and Memory usage), do you have any idea why?

I tried enabling the standard theme pfsense_ng - Removing all widgets and reapplying them again, this didn't change anything - So I hoped you might have an idea of why =).

charlie0440

@courier, not looked into this. Before I do is it possible for you to try one of the 2.1.1-PRERELEASE Snapshots Available No need to apply any of my patches they should all be applied already in the snapshots.

c0urier

hi @Charlie0440 - I tried upgrading all widgets are updating now, but I can only have two side by side columns in the widescreen.

Any suggestions?

charlie0440

my mistake, although my work was pulled into master a long time ago, it hasn't been pulled into the 2.1 branch. I will have to create a PR for this. I have very limited spare time at the mo and there is no guarantee it will be accepted, are we in feature freeze??.

If someone wants to do this please feel free, the commits are already in master.

c0urier

@charlie0440:

my mistake, although my work was pulled into master a long time ago, it hasn't been pulled into the 2.1 branch. I will have to create a PR for this. I have very limited spare time at the mo and there is no guarantee it will be accepted, are we in feature freeze??.

If someone wants to do this please feel free, the commits are already in master.

Can I reapply your old packages to get the widescreen back, or how should I proceed? =)

c0urier

It almost worked.

Small cosmetic error, but else everything seems to update.

c0urier

@charlie0440 - Will you make one that is fully compatible with 2.1.1?

justincase

Applying this patch:
https://github.com/melomac/widescreen_fs

On pfSense 2.1.1 pfsense_ng theme works.

c0urier

Some warnings during install, but it worked perfectly.

And no cosmetic errors.

charlie0440

nice saved me some work ;)

~~Sorry guys been really busy recently. Just finished a project I was working on so will try and get a PR of this into 2.2 as 2.1.1 seems to be released (at least my box is telling me an update is available for the last few days).

I can submit a PR but I don't know whether it will be accepted. Its been in master for ages but I think that will become pfsense 3, which I guess is a loooonnngggg way off~~

Edit master branch is 2.2 so shouldn't be too long until its ready. Its already live in the the 2.2 snapshots! - https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=74154.15

justincase

@c0urier:

Some warnings during install, but it worked perfectly.

Yes, you are right.

Turns out:

I could check for "pfsense_ng_fs" theme folder before patching, and remove it, but that would assumes nobody modified the theme after the patch and could lead to unwanted data loss.
I could check for existance of backup'd "index.php.orig", diff and count diff'd lines, and if 0 erase the backup file, but it would assumes, again, that "index.php" file didn't change during update.

As assumptions are bad, I suggest people who don't fully understand the patch should go through the revert part of the README before upgrading pfSense and launching the patch again.

If you already applied the patch and already upgraded to let's say pfSense 2.1.1 or 2.1.2, then just patch index.php file and remove pfsense_ng folder inside /usr/local/www/themes/pfsense_ng_fs folder, i.e. /usr/local/www/themes/pfsense_ng_fs/pfsense_ng

Sorry for that, I should spend more time understanding the subtilities of cp CLI and / :-)

Mr. Jingles

Could I ask my by now famous noob questions?

On my second pfSense, I did not have the wide gui before (I do have it on my first pfSense which is still on 2.1). On my second pfSense, I am on 2.1.2 already (due to a problem with my quad nic I upgraded). What would be the procedure to get the widescreen on this 2.1.2? Install the last one from Charlie (the link above) and then the patch from Justincase? Or something else?

Thank you for your answer ;D