I'd certainly like to see this happen. FWIW, I like the IPCop interface. The web interface for the appliance looks just like their web site across the top (which can be confusing at times!). I don't know if it's 'good code' or not though.
Quinn Comendant wrote: > 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: [email protected] >> 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 -- -Eric 'shubes' --------------------------------------------------------------------- QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
