New menu layout?

[TraderStf]

What about moving 'settings' menu items in second level menus?
This will allow to have

• the list of watched items always available
• the main menu mainly with only reported events

Easily add new trackers without changing everything or having a huge main menu.

Menu Layout when SG is stopped, second level menus collapsed:

Security Growler  >  
Watching          >  
———————————————————
Watching Stopped

When SG is activated, all second level menus unfolded:

Security Growler  >  About...
                     Request a Feature
                     View the Full log
                     Clear Menubar Log
                     Ports Info (http://www.speedguide.net/ports.php)
                     Settings...
                     Quit...

Watching          >  Logs       >  /var/log/system.log:
                                   ssh
                                   sudo
                                   Ostiarius
                                   Ports Scan

                                   /abc/de/xy.log:
                                   mno
                                   hijkl

    
                    Connections >  21   FTP
                                   445  SMB
                                   585  IMAP SSL
                                   993  IMAP SSL
                                   3306 MySQL
                                   3689 iTunes
                                   5432 PostgreSQL
                                   5900 VNC

————————————————————————————
10:05 05/02 Watching Started
10:22 event bla
13:55 event blabla

Make it clearer, what do you think?

[pirate]

Thanks for the suggestions! Unfortunately I don't have control over the menu structure with Platypus. Eventually I'll rewrite the app in Native Cocoa and make tons of UI changes to the menu app, but that's a long way away.

[pirate]

Reopened but tacked it onto the v4.0 milestone so people know this is really far away.

[TraderStf]

Is it mandatory to stick to bash+platypus?
I have searched for some other 'languages' or ~GUI for Bash.

• AppleScript / Automator ?
• http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/basic/
• http://www.thefreecountry.com/compilers/basic.shtml
• https://code.visualstudio.com/Download (shame on me!)
• Java (pvke authorized)

Perhaps a mix of a Platypus app/launcher and another code...
Just an idea.

[TraderStf]

http://www.freepascal.org which includes OS X Objective-Pascal Classes

https://github.com/gabrielrcouto/php-gui build desktop apps, full window frame and all

[TraderStf]

http://electron.atom.io
Use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with Chromium and Node.js to Build cross platform desktop apps with web technologies

[pirate]

Decided to switch to bitbar for the menubar (it also solves #39). Here's how it looks so far:

[ajkblue]

@pirate do you have a timeframe for when this new version is expected to be released? Are there any new features? It looks interesting!

[pirate]

The issues left to solve for this release:

• redesign menubar layout and switch to bitbar
• fix sudo event parsing issue
• fix macOS Sierra system.log support
• finish linux support PR debugging
• hook up new menubar toggles to settings.py
• move settings.py to ~/.security-growler.conf on install to persist settings

I estimate it's about ~12 hours of work, I'll try to squeeze it in over the next couple weeks after my day job, but no promises on a release date.