I started working on something like this a little while ago, https://github.com/arlolra/bulb

but didn't manage to stir up much interest.

I'm happy to continue with it if anyone wants to collaborate.

Arlo

On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 9:39 PM, Damian Johnson atagar@torproject.org wrote:

Hi Nima, great mockup! For what it's worth a localhost tor interface is something I've been longing for us to do for quite some time. I pitched it to GSoC applicants (without much success) and plan to hack on it myself in the future, but not until after finishing the arm rewrite. So it'll be quite a while.

https://www.torproject.org/getinvolved/volunteer.html.en#relayWebPanel

Making a trac page with mockups and feature ideas might be a great spot to start even if we lack someone to hack on it right now.

Cheers! -Damian

On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Nima Fatemi nima@riseup.net wrote:

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Hi Devs,

[For those of you who have missed Vidalia, and for those of you who hated it dearly but still needed an easy-to-use Tor controller]

A long while ago, when I was bored on an airplane, I tried to imagine a nice controller inside TBB, with all the good features of Vidalia and some more stuff.

Fast forwarding to couple days ago...

I was hitting a weird exit node that wouldn't let me connect to any site except Google. I only had TBB on that machine, and couldn't find a way to find my Tor IP address. That UX nightmare reminded me of this image I complied on that trip. Although it's not finished and is based on imagination only! I thought I'd share it anyways, hoping to inspire people to start hacking on it.

https://people.torproject.org/~nima/ux/about-tor.png

Here's my question for you: How would you perfect that image? What's missing?

Let's talk about your ideal controller (inside browser).

Who knows... maybe someone would read this thread and make it happen.

Bests,

Nima 0XC009DB191C92A77B | @nimaaa | mrphs

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On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 11:16:12PM +0200, Arlo Breault wrote:

I started working on something like this a little while ago, https://github.com/arlolra/bulb

but didn't manage to stir up much interest.

I'm happy to continue with it if anyone wants to collaborate.

Arlo

Hey Arlo,

Did you start working on this again? Having something like this is actually really important. It would be awesome to get this functionality in Tor Browser again. Nima's design looks really good. I think a lot of people would be happy to see something like that.

Do you think this should be based on bulb or should it start from scratch? I looked at doing this about a month ago and considered adding it directly into TorButton. Maybe it is better to use Python/Stem for the backend. Thoughts?

- Matt

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 09:38:55AM -0400, Mark Smith wrote:

On 7/29/14, 9:31 AM, Matthew Finkel wrote:

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Did you start working on this again? Having something like this is actually really important. It would be awesome to get this functionality in Tor Browser again. Nima's design looks really good. I think a lot of people would be happy to see something like that.

Do you think this should be based on bulb or should it start from scratch? I looked at doing this about a month ago and considered adding it directly into TorButton. Maybe it is better to use Python/Stem for the backend. Thoughts?

Just so others are aware: Arthur is actively working on this ticket:

"Create Browser UI indication for current circuit status and exit IP" https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/8641

Thanks Mark! Arthur's mockup looks great. Combining his work with the ability to read the log in real-time would be awesome. I know these are distinct tickets, but if both functionality could land in TorButton at approximately the same time (very soon :)), it will help a lot.

Maybe the "easy" way to do this will be to work on a simple log reader, that is integrated into TorButton, and then if another, fancier thing materializes, then all the better. (yes, I will start looking at this again because "if I don't, how can I expect others will?"). If anyone feels like hacking on this, then you're probably a better candidate than me :)

Hi,

Mark Smith wrote (29 Jul 2014 13:38:55 GMT) :

Just so others are aware: Arthur is actively working on this ticket:

"Create Browser UI indication for current circuit status and exit IP" https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/8641

Thanks for pointing to it. This might be enough for Tails to stop shipping Vidalia, finally :)

However, ideally we would also need a UI that allows monitoring circuits created by non-web usage, which is apparently not covered by that ticket. Not sure if it's a real blocker. Damian, what's the status wrt. providing this feature in arm?

Cheers, -- intrigeri