[asterisk-users] Asterisk GUI

[Paul Hales]

On Sat, 2007-06-16 at 17:10 -0400, Dean Collins wrote:
> Brett,
> 
> The demand for asterisk GUI's could be that the world primarily consists
> of "four year olds" (as you put it - I call them customers) and not
> geeks with pocket protectors and Vi skills to tame all tasks.
> 
> When you realize that IP Telephony/Asterisk was restricted to such a
> small band of users when it was pure coding with Vi and .conf files and
> now with GUI's like Trixbox you have a much wider base of users
> experimenting and implementing.
> 
> Of course that's not to say that Trixbox is the be-all and
> end-all......personally I think that there is a hell of a lot missing
> (/wrong) with the Trixbox/Fonality product and a lot that could
> be/should be done differently/better.
> 
> ....but that's for another email.
> 

I would have to agree with you - it's not that GUI's are bad as such,
the main issue I have is that people ask me ho to do this and that, and
I go....well, we are going to have to remove your GUI....

PaulH