Adding a VLAN takes 26 clicks and 71 keystrokes across 6 screens

[Monviech (Cedrik)]

You dont have to input anything into the vlan field, the name gets auto generated if you leave it empty.

[pfry]

What is the correct way for OPNsense customers to give feedback? [...]

Personally, I think the forum is the place to start. Naturally, in an ideal world everyone would research their issue and incorporate prior discussion and work, but this isn't always realistic, for a number of reasons. For myself, I like to throw stuff out and get feedback, and then perhaps open an issue on github if I think it actually has merit. I try to see the legacy and direction of the project, but I don't always succeed, of course.

As far as your suggestions, they don't strike me as significant. That is, filling in some default values would make no difference to me, just as a lots of clicking and typing to set up a VLAN doesn't bother me. Oh, and I care little for/about wizards, and I'm not likely to use the API. My $.02, and worth every penny.

[...] I don't enjoy starting at the "but what if we just did it this way". [...]

Understandable. All I can say is "Y'all keep up the good work", because occasionally I'm going to have this great idea that I can't believe y'all haven't considered...

[franco]

>  I try to see the legacy and direction of the project, but I don't always succeed, of course.

That's fair. I don't try to preach if I can and instead get to the technical side quickly, because ideas and actual patches can often differ in scope and complexity and person who has to carry it out.

Some discussions tend to sway to the wall-of-text postings, which usually means someone else should do the work. I'm not judging, but also blunt enough to say it's not going to be me either.


Cheers,
Franco

[johnmcallister]

Just chipping in my 2 bits --

While there are a lot of places where Opnsense's web UI could be improved or re-worked, IMO ALL of that sort of intention to polish and optimize the UI/UX -- 100% of it, every last bit -- is secondary, possibly even tertiary, to the reasons I use Opnsense in the first place:

• Stability
• Broad feature set with fine-grained configurability
• Frequent security updates.

Just continuing to keep the above 3 priorities fully-realized, as I believe they are now, is enough to keep me satisfied going forward.

Granted, ones's use case does influence such an opinion. That is to say as a small-time user who runs 3 small separate site networks on Opnsense, I probably only touch firewall rules, VLAN & interface assignments, etc. a few times a year, and when I do, all I care about is that they continue to work as-expected and reliably, regardless of whether it takes me 8 clicks or 58 clicks to make a change.

If I was a network admin in a enterprise setting, configuring one more new Opnsense instances a week, I might have a stronger wish for UI/UX polishing.

(*cough* that said, it sure would be nice to be able to copy-and-paste firewall rules between interfaces, say, by ticking the rule-selector checkbox and clicking "copy to Interface X"...  although, thinking that through further, it might grease the rails overmuch towards people making broadly insecure and/or breaking changes to their firewall rule sets.)

[Patrick M. Hausen]

*cough* that said, it sure would be nice to be able to copy-and-paste firewall rules between interfaces, say, by ticking the rule-selector checkbox and clicking "copy to Interface X"...

Click the "duplicate" symbol to the right, change interface in the opened rule edit dialog, possibly change some more things like source from "interface1 net" to "interface2 net", save, done. The UI will even take you to the "interface2" rules instead of where you started.