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15.1 Legacy Series / Interface Improvements
« on: March 06, 2015, 12:04:09 pm »
Hi,
I am testing various hardware / software firewalls for use in our datacenter and i just installed OPNsense.
Installation was quick and easy, the GUI looks nice, but i think there is (alot) of room for improvement.
I noticed that the GUI isn't very structured, it's basically a giant menu with all sorts of functions listed below each other with not enough logic.
A few example's:
- The menu starts with System, and the first item is "Advanced", i woulden't start with that since it's only for advanced users. "General Setup" would make more sense.
- Even after having already run it, the "Setup Wizard" still appears in the menu, why not remove it?
- When adding a firewall rule, i get a giant form which could be better:
-- Hide all the tooltips behind a ? icon. Many of them are stating the obvious.
-- It has a checkbox Disabled, why the reverse logic here (Enable a checkbox to disable), and for example in the Interfaces menu you do use Enable interface as a checkbox.
-- ICMP type should only appear when the ICMP protocol is selected
-- When defining Source or Destination as an Alias, i expect a searchbox where i can find my aliases
-- Hide all the advanced features at the bottom, let people expand them when they need them
- Many functions could use some extra text explaining what it is.
- In the "Services" menu, many things could be grouped, for example the DHCP functions, and the DNS functions.
- The "Status" & "Diagnostics" menu items have so many options, and many only do one simple thing, i think condensing this to less menu items and using tabs would make sense.
These are just a few things i found in a few minutes on which OPNsense could improve alot.
It might also be usefull to show you around the interface of a Checkpoint firewall, it looks really nice and structured.
Let me know what you think, i'm a webdeveloper myself so maybe i could help out. (I noticed a theme possibility, but i dont know how far you can go with it
)
I am testing various hardware / software firewalls for use in our datacenter and i just installed OPNsense.
Installation was quick and easy, the GUI looks nice, but i think there is (alot) of room for improvement.
I noticed that the GUI isn't very structured, it's basically a giant menu with all sorts of functions listed below each other with not enough logic.
A few example's:
- The menu starts with System, and the first item is "Advanced", i woulden't start with that since it's only for advanced users. "General Setup" would make more sense.
- Even after having already run it, the "Setup Wizard" still appears in the menu, why not remove it?
- When adding a firewall rule, i get a giant form which could be better:
-- Hide all the tooltips behind a ? icon. Many of them are stating the obvious.
-- It has a checkbox Disabled, why the reverse logic here (Enable a checkbox to disable), and for example in the Interfaces menu you do use Enable interface as a checkbox.
-- ICMP type should only appear when the ICMP protocol is selected
-- When defining Source or Destination as an Alias, i expect a searchbox where i can find my aliases
-- Hide all the advanced features at the bottom, let people expand them when they need them
- Many functions could use some extra text explaining what it is.
- In the "Services" menu, many things could be grouped, for example the DHCP functions, and the DNS functions.
- The "Status" & "Diagnostics" menu items have so many options, and many only do one simple thing, i think condensing this to less menu items and using tabs would make sense.
These are just a few things i found in a few minutes on which OPNsense could improve alot.
It might also be usefull to show you around the interface of a Checkpoint firewall, it looks really nice and structured.
Let me know what you think, i'm a webdeveloper myself so maybe i could help out. (I noticed a theme possibility, but i dont know how far you can go with it
)