Comments on: Hackathon2k9 theme preview

By: Marco

Marco — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:42:24 +0000

…no matter the skin, it’s the brain that’s impressive
Apart from that, personally I think that the gray-red combination in the present “nervecenter” theme is elegant and helps you focusing on the contents and not the shape (agree with mrguitar). Flashing colors doesn’t just “fit” in a professional environement, period.
Anyway, like I sad before, it’s the brain what matters most, so keep up the good work and thanks for this excellent piece of stuff EMBEDDED PFSENSE RULEZ!

By: Sergio Almonte

Sergio Almonte — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:24:58 +0000

Very good Theme. Matter fact, I’m listening to The Prodigy right now “The Omen”. I also use PFSense and I gotta say, that it’s the best firewall I’ve seen out there and it’s free!!!.

Not to sound unsatisfied, but the Load Balancing features need more enhancements on it to make it perfect. Other than that! Way to go!

By: Chris Buechler

Chris Buechler — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:33:25 +0000

Mark: we posted a link to the change log for those who are interested in the minute details. https://rcs.pfsense.org/projects/pfsense

By: mrguitar

mrguitar — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:24:56 +0000

I love the look for a “home” firewall. I don’t think it would fly in a corp environment though. One of my favourite things about the current default theme is how professional it looks. It’s hard enough to get M$ folks to consider using anything open source. I would hate to see the look on their face if this was the default theme.

That said, I do like it and would consider using it @ home.

Thanks for your hard work.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:37:38 +0000

“things of that nature that are critically important but not of a lot of interest as blog post items.”

Depends on who you ask.

By: Christian Krützfeldt

Christian Krützfeldt — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:13:20 +0000

Very cool.
I don’t visit the firewall interfaces daily, but when I do have to go there, a nice look and feel is definitely something I appreciate.

By: Jantje

Jantje — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:02:26 +0000

It’s a firewall theme, stressing the fire. And it’s definitely is a nice attention grabber.

As for general feedback:
-The red font at the bottom of the screen on the yellow background could be a bit darker for better contrast.
-In the pull-down menu, the yellow space underneath the bottom/last menu item could be just a bit bigger.
-The main menu items have the illusion of casting a shadow unto their right neighbor, but the rest of the pull-down menu does not. It might look more finished if the entire pull-down menu has the same illusion of shadow.

Also, just a thought, is the background animated? A gently waving backdrop kind of like Aurora skies, that would really be an eye catcher.

Anyway, it’s a nice looking theme.

By: nexx

nexx — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 11:54:36 +0000

ACK to BennTech

By: Frederic

Frederic — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 05:59:39 +0000

Cool header, nice background, tabs… !

But I agree with previous posters about changing the orange!, the color combination with the red doesn’t “work” well to make it look really professional.

By: Chris Buechler

Chris Buechler — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:02:52 +0000

Fritte: Because that’s what Holger likes to do. He’s done almost all the great theme work on the project, and doesn’t write any code.

The flashy front end stuff is what’s gotten attention and posts here, but if you look through the 10+ pages of commit logs from the hackathon, you’ll see the bulk of everyone’s efforts went towards back end work, bug fixes, things of that nature that are critically important but not of a lot of interest as blog post items.