Re: [Openvpn-users] Management interface "echo" command standardization

2017-11-25 Thread Selva Nair
Hi, On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 5:04 PM, Jonathan K. Bullard wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Gert Doering wrote: > > I missed something in your list, which *I* would like to see for > > my users - a way to send a message to the GUI to display in a popup > > window, intended for th

Re: [Openvpn-users] Management interface "echo" command standardization

2017-11-25 Thread Selva Nair
Hi, On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Gert Doering wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 12:27:10PM -0500, Selva Nair wrote: > > Thanks for summarising the status and proposals for echo commands. > > I missed something in your list, which *I* would like to see for > my users - a way to send a

Re: [Openvpn-users] Management interface "echo" command standardization

2017-11-25 Thread Jonathan K. Bullard
Hi, On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Gert Doering wrote: > I missed something in your list, which *I* would like to see for > my users - a way to send a message to the GUI to display in a popup > window, intended for the users to see. > > Examples could be stuff like > > "you are using a server

Re: [Openvpn-users] Management interface "echo" command standardization

2017-11-25 Thread Jonathan K. Bullard
Thanks! Comments below. On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 12:27 PM, Selva Nair wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for summarising the status and proposals for echo commands. > > Comments below are based on what I have implemented in the > OpenVPN Windows GUI (Windows GUI in the following) and some > changes I've been

Re: [Openvpn-users] Management interface "echo" command standardization

2017-11-25 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 12:27:10PM -0500, Selva Nair wrote: > Thanks for summarising the status and proposals for echo commands. I missed something in your list, which *I* would like to see for my users - a way to send a message to the GUI to display in a popup window, intended for the users

Re: [Openvpn-users] Management interface "echo" command standardization

2017-11-25 Thread Selva Nair
Hi, Thanks for summarising the status and proposals for echo commands. Comments below are based on what I have implemented in the OpenVPN Windows GUI (Windows GUI in the following) and some changes I've been working on. I refer to the client openvpn process as the daemon or client daemon and the

[Openvpn-users] Management interface "echo" command standardization

2017-11-25 Thread Jonathan K. Bullard
Inspired by a thread [1] about sending a message from the server to the client's GUI (and then displaying it to the user), I would like to discuss standardizing the management interface's "echo" commands. It would be nice if the OpenVPN Windows GUI, Tunnelblick, and other GUIs implemented the comma

Re: [Openvpn-users] Displaying messages to users by means of the GUI?

2017-11-25 Thread Jonathan K. Bullard
This thread has gotten away from its original subject: having the GUI display messages to the user. To summarize: 1. Static messages could be displayed by a "pre" script as Selva suggested, but that wouldn't be very portable. (Off the top of my head, on macOS I would have such a script use Ap