WinBox usability improvements?

RouterOS General
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Hi guys,

just wanted to ask, if it would be possible to bit redesign/adapt winbox for better usability?

  1. and probably very cosmetic - graphs are using one red, one blue, one pixel wide lines. Why not some nicer graphs? I mean - bot rx and tx to be displayed one over each other? You can mix colors, can’t you?

  2. what drives me nuts is inability to arrange windows. It could be solved in one of following ways (or even more ways):

a) small icon next to the window close button, which would send particular window to back

b) some list-box, where you could choose what window to bring to front

c) and probably most elegant - make kind of Windows taskbar, or just one reserve kind of small 20pixel bar, and put there tabs for opened windows …

I know that ctrl + tab can be used to switch between windows, but some additional mode would not hurt …

…just my 0.2 cents

-pekr-

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MikroTik ain´t M$ Winsucks..

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Ah, thanks for really educating reply, that was really rational answer :wink:

While MT is not MS, Winbox usability sux. And if you need some lessons on interface usability, go and study some material on the web :wink:

-pekr-

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just use the console or ssh session.
Winbox is for help to configurate the MT, not for be nice to your eyes

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Look, I can use the console, and I am using it from time to time, as I work with Linux on occassion at home, but I have another ppl as e.g. my brother, who are productive using WinBox.

We are not talking console here, right? I don’t understand why I am suggested using console, if I am just trying to suggest the way of how to improve on WinBox. That is not critique, just a suggesting of how to eventually improve on WinBox usability …

-pekr-

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we are constantly working on improving things, thank you for the suggestions