I googled qmailadmin templates and found only one set of modified templates, slightly prettier but even worse code -- more tables and font tags added. I will be launching QmailAdmin to our users in 2 weeks, and so I take the initiative and will hire a XHTML/CSS geek that I work with to rebuild the templates. The idea will be to format them in pure XHTML so that any design whatever can be applied to it. Once done I'll contribute to the list.
As for a consistent admin interface, I think that is very important -- and very *easy* if we start out the right way. However, I see the interfaces into two categories: 1. "Public" admin interfaces, as used by our customers. This includes only QmailAdmin for now, but which we will be incorporating into our "hosting control panel" with a basic spamassassin settings form, support ticketing system, and a "knowledgebase." 2. Qmail Toaster admin interfaces. These will only be used by our few administrators who manage the mail server. I'm less concerned with the consistency of this interface. None of our paying customers will ever see them. But of course, as administrators OUR joy is also important! Although I personally will probably rarely use the admin-toaster, instead relying on command-line tools. I do think that some QT admins would find it useful to add to and customize the toaster-admin interface to their liking. If the toaster-admin is built using standard web technologies (i.e. NOT compiled C) and structured in a way that facilitates extension, then it would be easy to add custom screens like the SA stats, or whatever said admin chooses. The current admin-toaster interface doesn't suck, but it could use an improved navigation interface, especially if additional components/pages are added. I'm happy to join in to help move this along. Q On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 22:41:24 +0100, Jon Darrington wrote: > Not that I know of, though if you search for a post from Jake Vickers - Call > to C programmers - he obviously has plans to rewrite vqAdmin. > > I have also been thinking about some additions to the mrtg monitoring for > disk space, mem and cpu load; and have been using a perl script > http://www.rulesemporium.com/programs/sa-stats.txt to analyze which rules > are most hit by spam so I can check the scores and modify one or two. I was > thinking of converting this to php and outputting XHTML again to use CSS on > it. These are still just ideas - and I was just going to look a packaging > them up as an rpm to add onto the current install. > > It might be worth having a look at combining the efforts and developing a > new modern look and feel to a consistent admin interface, possibly with a > menu bar down the side, I don't know what your thoughts are. > > Jon > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Quinn Comendant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 05 October 2006 22:07 > To: qmailtoaster-list@qmailtoaster.com > Subject: [qmailtoaster] qmailadmin -> CSS/XHTML? > > > I thought I'd ask before setting upon the task myself: has anybody > taken the qmailadmin templates and converted to them to valid XHTML so > that CSS can easily update the design? > > Q > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
