Services widget

[AhnHEL]

I didnt think of this, awesome recommendation, thank you.

@Franco: Thanks for the effort that went into the new design, but I have to admit that I'm not a fan of it in its current form. It feels quite different from the overall look and feel of the interface, service names are now truncated, and the descriptions are no longer visible.

Personally, I find the previous design more practical and easier to read. Hopefully, this change can either be reconsidered, refined, or at least offered as an optional alternative rather than becoming the default for all widgets.

No offense intended—this is simply my personal feedback as a user. I appreciate the work that goes into OPNsense, but for me, this particular change does not feel like an improvement.


Back to the Roots...
Couldn't find any errors, but as always, use at your own risk!
For those who don't want that, here is the good view:
1. Login SSH
2. Press 8 for Shell
3. sudo nano /usr/local/opnsense/www/js/widgets/Services.js
4. Copy Contents in Services.js
https://github.com/opnsense/core/blob/stable/26.1/src/opnsense/www/js/widgets/Services.js
5. Reboot

[fuskadoo]

1. Login SSH
2. Press 8 for Shell
3. sudo nano /usr/local/opnsense/www/js/widgets/Services.js
4. Copy Contents in Services.js
https://github.com/opnsense/core/blob/stable/26.1/src/opnsense/www/js/widgets/Services.js
5. Reboot

Thank you very much for this tip!

[OzziGoblin]

Hi Team

Just some feedback on 26.7.1, the upgrade went fine, but I'm using the vicuna theme and the services widget is pretty much unreadable.

Hope you can fix it at some stage

[Timeraider]

Tbh, not sure if anyone asked for this change and why this wasnt pushed back against during the RC versions (if it was already implemented there)
The old list was easy on the eyes and has distinct separate parts (aka.. name | controls). And depending on the dashboard space, the list is mostly to long anyway so you need to scroll meaning it has your attention regardless without needing a lot of color.

This is basically someone saying: Ow no, I cant figure out if my hardware isnt running as its only a red light blinking. Lets make it so that when my hardware doesnt work it changes the color of my entire wall. And hides the power button somewhere on that wall as well.

[franco]

Let's give the community themes a chance to fix their branding colors first, which is the core complaint here.


Cheers,
Franco

[dseven]

Let's give the community themes a chance to fix their branding colors first, which is the core complaint here.

Is it really, though? A number of us, in the various threads discussing the same issue (sigh) have commented that the style just doesn't match that of the other widgets available on the dashboard, where status is represented by an LED-like icon to the left of the entity name, and not the background colour of the whole table cell. You can fiddle with colours all day, but IMO it's still going to look completely out of place.

[franco]

Yes it all bloats the service widget back up to where it should have not been.

I find half the criticism valid and the other half misplaced (because the complaint is about the colors in the theme and people say it's "ugly" without doing the work necessary or trying to understand -- it's not a community trait I want to foster).

Also, several people said they like it which rarely happens when we do nice things and you all know that's true.  ;)

My main concern with the argument "it doesn't fit" is that it is backwards-oriented when clearly this is all simple Bootstrap theming.

Are we at the point where we don't tolerate innovation?  Just a few things I've been thinking about.


Cheers,
Franco

[dseven]

I hope I'm not coming across as belligerent about this - I'm just sharing my opinion. As I said somewhere, in one of the threads, I do like the compactness, but the style just doesn't work for me - it looks like something from a 1990's GUI that got shoved into a webUI that's otherwise fairly contemporary. The fact that it doesn't work for me personally isn't of great significance, but I got the sense that others see it this way too...

[passeri]

Some do, some don't.

[WN1X]

Maybe lose the green inverse video effect and just color the text red/green depending on the service state.