David,
I didn't put 2 and 2 together when I was writing before, but I knew that it had been contributed. I didn't complete the thought, but I have seen it, and it immediately replaced the one we had hacked together. Nice job ! We had taken our lumps putting the asterisk-gui 1.0 version on an early astlinux .6 build. Now it's included. Ditto on a few The rate of progress is astounding. Ron Byer Jr. NetWeave Integrated Solutions, Inc. +1.732.786.8830 x120 _____ From: David Kerr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 2:53 PM To: AstLinux Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] Astlinux GUI's Ron, Thanks for your comments, we're in broad agreement, certainly asterisk-gui is more suitable than freePBX for an appliance. Take a look at the CDR Viewer in the current asterisk-gui SVN... Brandon just checked in a new one a few days ago that I wrote. I'm biased, but I happen to like it a lot! David On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Ron Byer Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: David, et al. Agreed. Nice job looking forward. A couple of observations: 1) Digium recently announced that they are also going to distribute freePBX as an option with their AsteriskNOW distribution. Now, freePBX is a fine tool, but it has no place on an appliance. That means that the Asterisk-gui is now more closely aligned to the appliance world. Astlinux and asterisk-gui should work hand-in-glove. 2) Generally agreed that Lonnie's web interface (p.k.a alt-web ?) should and can focus on system facilities and configuration, and leave Asterisk-related stuff to the Asterisk-gui. It will be very enticing to fill a hole in the Asterisk-gui feature-set (for instance, the CDR viewer, or blacklist support) in the Astlinux web interface, only to have the Asterisk-Gui come out with same in the next release or two. Not the end of the world, but there is no sense doing redundant work at the end of the day. (I speak with some experience here. 3-4 months ago, we took the CDR viewer from the alt-web and put it in the asterisk-gui). Now there is an asterisk-gui CDR viewer in the works. 3) It is probably inevitable that duplication should occur, but it can probably be minimized by communicating with the asterisk-gui folks, Brandon and Pari. It may make sense to fill a hole with an asterisk-gui contribution to reduce the probability of duplication. Just a few quick thoughts. _____ From: David Kerr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 1:40 PM To: AstLinux Users Mailing List Subject: [Astlinux-users] Astlinux GUI's Since I first started playing with AstLinux a few months ago I have observed significant improvements in the user interface(s) that are available for our use. The new (Lonnie's) Web Interface has made configuration, backup and viewing status very much easier. I have found it very useful. But lurking in the background is Digium's Asterisk-gui which has also made some significant improvements over the last few months. I have found it to be extremely useful for managing Asterisk-related things, like setup of trunks and extensions. I think both GUIs have their place on Astlinux and would like to suggest a strategy that embraces both. Essentially I would suggest 1) Astlinux should use the Asterisk-gui for anything Asterisk-related. 2) Astlinux's own GUI should focus primarily (but not exclusively) on the non-Asterisk settings and cross-system stuff. What do I mean by this? a) Astlinux should formally have a link (a tab at the top?) that takes you to the asterisk-gui (as a new tab in browser, or inside a frame in the astlinux gui?) b) Astlinux gui should focus on network, firewall, user/system preferences, etc. like it does today. c) Astlinux gui should fill in features that are missing from Asterisk-gui, but avoid duplication. By which I mean thinks like blacklist/whitelist/callerID database management, none of which is in Asterisk-gui d) Astlinux gui should include (at the risk of duplication) commonly/frequently needed Asterisk functions. By which I mean, a CDR viewer, web access to voicemail, maybe active channels and parked/queued calls status... so you don't have to login to the asterisk-gui for frequently viewed stuff. As you can see, this is pretty much how things stand today, with perhaps the exception that there is no link to the asterisk-gui exposed on the Astlinux gui. But I thought I would write this to provoke some discussion and debate on a GUI Strategy for Astlinux. Comments, thoughts? David No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. 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