I think you underestimate the importance of a good interface, it is not only the engine which counts, if that were true we still be driving Ford Model T ...

 

Simple: don't use unmenu.

 

Gary - thank you for speaking up on this topic. I was keeping my mouth shut but the "model T" comment hit a nerve.

 

Many many (many) man hours went into creating unmenu - mostly Joe L. and myself, but also bubbaQ, RobJ, Weebotech, and many community members that participated or created the equivalent of plugins to install add ons. My principle contribution was something called myMain, which is a very powerful GUI - significantly more powerful that the current GUI, but light years ahead of the GUI of the day, which - let's just say - was bare bones (I had another phrase here but removed it). It took years to move and relabel the Restore button (which did a new config) from pixels away from the often used refresh button, had no smart data (except temperature), and small icons that were very difficult to differentiate. No plugins or ability to add new packages. unmenu/myMain filled an important need, and still exceeds the current GUI is many areas.

 

myMain contains user-configurable views of unRAID management data, easy to read and understand icons, performance data, one screen smart view to see all issues with all drives at once, ability to maintain many useful attributes about each drive including tracking prior smart attribute levels and only reporting new smart issues, viewable preclear status, server photographs, ... And the text is nice and big and easy to read. The icons were created once and there was never a complaint that users didn't understand them. I can run custom scans of my syslog on any drive. Run hdparm and smartctl. I can also see my preclear status in real time. And view the syslog with color coding and filtering features.

 

I frankly tried to use the existing GUI to manage my array and gave up. The text is too small, the cute little up and down arrows not informative enough, and the need to navigate to each of my numerous drives in my array separately to get meaningful picture of my drive's health, infuriating. The icons continue to be small and not well defined, after how many revisions? I can't establish multiple views of my data and see the information that is important to me. It is nice for Dockers and for VMs, which didn't exist prior. It is also visually appealing. But the true array management features are mostly flashy and rudimentary features that are insufficient for my needs. And it also crashes. How many times have I read that "emHttp crashed, won't restart, and I used unmenu to affect a smooth server shutdown".

 

unmenu was never acknowledged by LT on the positive or negative side, despite huge community accolades and usage. Never understood that. I recently offered a private demo to LT because I felt the new GUI was lacking, which was attended by jonp (Tom chose not to attend) and he took away several must-have features for the unRAID GUI. I'm sure we'll be seeing "dynamix" sporting some of these "model T" features in the future.

Removed all text and posted to ROADMAP here:

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=41678.msg395658#msg395658

Removed all text and posted to ROADMAP here:

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=41678.msg395658#msg395658

Is there a better place for these feature requests for Dynamix?  As the quoted text states move it to ROADMAP thread.

Is there a better place for these feature requests for Dynamix?

 

RE: 1. above, you can turn off graphic display of Used/Free via Display Settings.

 

As for the other requests, you can post them in the Roadmap board.  Or have you seen this?

 

https://github.com/limetech/dynamix

 

You could create a github account and post requests as Issues tagged with "Enhancement" if you wanted to.

 

Better yet, you could contribute to the code!  This goes for everyone who likes to develop software: you can contribute to the webGui code base on github.  We have specifically put all the webGui code on github to support this and using git is very rewarding.  If you study how it works you would see that pages could even be written in 'awk' if you were really bent on that, but better to use PHP so as not to re-invent a dozen wheels.

@garycase  - Thanks for your suggestion and information - much appreciated.

 

Thanks all!

You're most welcome.

 

Brian => Absolutely agree that MyMain is a better and more unified presentation of data than the new GUI.    It's also more stable ... which is certainly nice.  I too have seen a lot of  "... emHttp crashed, won't restart, and I used unmenu to affect a smooth server shutdown"  comments -- or, even worse, "...  "emHttp crashed, won't restart, and I had to shut down by holding the power switch"  (i.e. force a "dirty" shutdown).

 

 

 

 

 

Is there a better place for these feature requests for Dynamix?

 

RE: 1. above, you can turn off graphic display of Used/Free via Display Settings.

I know I can turn both USED and FREE off at the same time but I did not think I could turn them off individually.  I.E. USED space is a graphic but FREE space is text only.

 

As for the other requests, you can post them in the Roadmap board.  Or have you seen this?

 

https://github.com/limetech/dynamix

 

You could create a github account and post requests as Issues tagged with "Enhancement" if you wanted to.

Thanks.  Thought that might be the case but since it was Dynamix wasn't positive.  Will put my request in Roadmap board.

 

Better yet, you could contribute to the code!  This goes for everyone who likes to develop software: you can contribute to the webGui code base on github.  We have specifically put all the webGui code on github to support this and using git is very rewarding.  If you study how it works you would see that pages could even be written in 'awk' if you were really bent on that, but better to use PHP so as not to re-invent a dozen wheels.

If it was Java I could try would have to learn PHP and just don't have time for that.