Hello all,
I am not sure if I am at the right place with this question.
But it seems, that the OpenVPN GUI is dead?
If I take a look here
http://sourceforge.net/p/openvpn-gui/issues/ I see a some very very old issues, without fixes.
Additionally the last issue closed is over 1 year ago?!?
http://sourceforge.net/p/openvpn-gui/issues/search/?q=status%3Awont-fix+or+status%3Aclosed-duplicate+or+status%3Aclosed-rejected+or+status%3Aclosed-works-for-me+or+status%3Aclosed+or+status%3Aclosed-fixed
And also interessting is a closed issue (Admin rights since Vista, which is still needed and not fixed!)
http://sourceforge.net/p/openvpn-gui/issues/17/
So for me is the question, has the codebase moved to openvpn directly? If so, there can I file issues, so they get read or solved?
I can provide someone (develop) to help, if wished and needed.
Additionally question to all here?
Who has DAUs which are not able to read logfiles on the OpenVPN GUI?
For this case I need a GUI which is failsafe to the user. If the connection fails:
- no admin rights => route add fails
- no connection possible => DNS fails
- WLAN connection lost => OpenVPN does not show warnings/errors
and so on. OpenVPN GUI often tells everything "green", so connected, and the users are too lazy or maybe they are not able to understand the logs. So the status of the DAU-GUI should be definitvly clear on the real OpenVPN status.
Maybe it is totaly easy and we have missed to configure the openvpn-client side properly to work properly with the OpenVPN GUI? Are there special params needed to setup?
Or can someone recommend me a GUI which is fitting to the requirement of users and not of admins (like the current distributed OpenVPN GUI)?
To be clear I am not complaining about OpenVPN, I love it and it is a great piece of work. But comparing OpenVPN GUI to the openvpn itself, OpenVPN GUI is somethere lost 5 years ago of the current stream. The pain in my eyes, users see only the disfunction of the OpenVPN GUI and consider the complete openvpn stack as a crap.
And users in companies can get very strong if compains show up regularly. And in such cases I had till now to replace OpenVPN 3 times with a commercial "crap". This hurts me, but I can understand the managers...
So please let me know how can I help to improve the OpenVPN GUI or maybe is openVPN considering to replace the current GUI through other solutions?
For this I've collected all current OpenVPN GUIs in ohloh.net to get a analysis of the projects.
The analysis should finish today, here are the links to the projects I researched and added there:
https://www.ohloh.net/p/openvpnui
https://www.ohloh.net/p/openvpn-manager
https://www.ohloh.net/p/securepoint
https://www.ohloh.net/p/openvpn-gui
I my eyes this is a good example how a GUI should work:
https://www.ohloh.net/p/tunnelblick
best wishes,
hkais
