Not sure I understand the reluctance to including a link to astlinux.org, it is afterall the 'astlinux' domain and therefore under control of the developers... The same folks that could update the GUI if anything ever changes.
You always come back to suggesting the user configurable link on the prefs page. So what is one to do if you want a link to both the astlinux documentation and the asterisk GUI (which isn't even external, so I see no reason why it could not be better handled by the astlinux GUI). As for network configuration at the astlinux box, I don't think it is unreasonable to assume that it can get to the astlinux.org domain. Afterall it needs internet access to get to SIP trunks. If it is really unacceptable to put a link to astlinux.org then how about including documentation in the build image. Yes I know you have declined to do this in the past because an embedded solution shouldn't need it and because space in the image is constrained. But, the astlinux GUI really could use some basic help info (even just tooltips would do) and basic help would hardly take much space. But if it does the how about doing the same as was just implemented for sounds. Give the option to download them. Sorry if I am ranting on here, but Tom made an excelent suggestion and I have suggested in the past that the GUI should have some help info. I just don't understand the reasons why a development team apparently regards easy access to documentation and help info such a bad thing. David On 2/15/10, Lonnie Abelbeck <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Feb 15, 2010, at 4:59 AM, Tom Chadwin wrote: > >> Open for discussion: >> >> 1. Link to doc.astlinux.org on footer of all Astlinux GUI pages > > Possibly http://doc.astlinux.org/userdoc:documentation "AstLinux > Documentation" at the bottom of the Status tab, but I have misgivings of > automatically defining external links that may or may-not work, depending on > the network configuration. It would be very confusing if the link didn't > work. > > Of course, the Prefs tab -> General Options: > > External URL Link: | http://doc.astlinux.org/userdoc:documentation | > > External URL Name: | AstLinux Documentation | > > works quite nicely. Tom, maybe tip-worthy ? > > >> >> 2. GUI selection of hardware - since the only Astlinux-specific setting is >> adding eg DAHDIMODS, it wouldn't be much work to make this gui-driven. >> Have >> an Add Hardware page, allowing the selection of TDM, ISDN cards etc, and >> then offer minimal config via GUI - in other words, allow setting of the >> DAHDIMODS values (or similar). I don't know if I have explained this very >> well... > > The problem I see is as Digium supported hardware is added/removed this > would be a moving target, difficult to keep current. > > Lonnie > >> >> Anything else? >> >> Cheers >> >> Tom > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, > Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW > http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Astlinux-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to > [email protected]. > -- Sent from my mobile device ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [email protected].
