Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2022 23:19 Post subject: Is there some setting for more width in the Web interface?
DD-WRT Web interface out of the box uses relatively narrow rectangle, and some information especially about IPv6 (like in Status > LAN > Active Clients) is truncated without any obvious way to display it fully.
Is there some configuration or interface theme with bigger or flexible width?
OK, I think I found it in Administration > Web UI styles. xirian and brainslayer provide quite a wider view where above isn't a problem. Though "elegant" style looks nicer.
It would be good to have some option with that but with bigger width.
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Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2022 9:27 Post subject:
shmerl wrote:
Yes, it applies to the current release. May be I can open some feature request - basically increase width for the "elegant" UI theme.
Basically, show me (screenshot) exactly where you want more width and Ill see if its possible.
If this is inside the table, its not possible because those tables have a limited width since the help sidemenu takes some width away the table flies out from layout and it looks ugly the bug was reported. The way you see it now is to prevent that bug.
You could make that whole help sidebar hide/show. All of the help / explanation in the default (Fresh)Tomato is like that and is not visible by default. But people would complain if you did that because reasons. _________________ "The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
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Basically, show me (screenshot) exactly where you want more width and Ill see if its possible.
If this is inside the table, its not possible because those tables have a limited width since the help sidemenu takes some width away the table flies out from layout and it looks ugly the bug was reported. The way you see it now is to prevent that bug.
Old issue unlikely to change width wise, but I can look at doing something else like a tooltip.
Note ... in the end of the addresses. Those are long IPv6 ones:
May be if not the table, you can expand the outer rectangle? It really takes a tiny portion of the screen.
Alternatively, you can decrease the size of the font for IPv6 address, though it's not ideal either.
Connections appears to be a prime candidate for abbreviation (CONN, CXN) and space reduction to 4 or 5 digits.
DHCP Clients has extra space in Hostname, MAC Address & Lease Expiration if need to widen IP Address column.
However IPv6 can be up to 39 characters 45 if IPv4-mapped so it easily becomes cumbersome to accommodate.
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Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2022 13:53 Post subject:
I have made all IP's show on tooltips for now on all tables (untested with ipv6), best that can be done with the current design, or just copy the ipv6 even though its cut off it copies the lot..
blkt wrote:
Connections appears to be a prime candidate for abbreviation (CONN, CXN) and space reduction to 4 or 5 digits.
DHCP Clients has extra space in Hostname, MAC Address & Lease Expiration if need to widen IP Address column.
However IPv6 can be up to 39 characters 45 if IPv4-mapped so it easily becomes cumbersome to accommodate.
It wont help abbreviations, not enough width altogether as you noted the sheer lenght, the header names could be all abbreviated (for the sake of the conversation), the data underneath is going to be as long as it needs to be.
This table needs to be fixed width as is now so stays within bounds, something will end up being cut off if I resize the headers, cannot be flexible either, if not the ipv6 then something else will be cut off, ipv6 is too long for that page when all other fields are populated, so something will give.
Then think translations -- nightmare 3 letter words in some languages are never ending in others.
Responsible layouts are a long way off (would solve this), or a design that I could collapse the help sidebar (also would solve this), or even make table headers resizable within the limited space (would solve this in a ugly way).
There is also the issue of size, adding JavaScript/CSS to make some of these cool things happen will cost and have an impact for the Dinosaurs DD-WRT simply wont give up support for. But the backend is still not ready, but its been further away as well.
Here just out of curiosity I made some hacks in browser to fit, notice percentage width needed for ipv6 40% mimimum all other tables header needed adjusting also, MAC needs minimum 16% anything else will go into ellipsis depending on MAC bits.
* that will break in any other language but English,
* that will break when users decide to change fonts or have a bigger font set, or even use DPI larger than 100%.
Overall also I showed how it will look like in tooltip which is my compromise for now already implemented.
