[asterisk-users] Asterisk GUI

[Dean Collins]

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.



 

Regards,

Dean Collins
Cognation Pty Ltd
dean at cognation.net
+1-212-203-4357 Ph
+61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial).

 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Brett Crapser
> Sent: Saturday, 16 June 2007 11:07 AM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk GUI
> 
> On Saturday 16 June 2007 02:24 am, Senad Jordanovic wrote:
> > Paul Hales wrote:
> > > GUI bad! CLI good!
> > >
> > > PaulH
> >
> > Really...?
> >
> > So explain why every major PBX manufacturer has GUI of some sort?
> > Surely they would have had CLI only if GUI is "bad"!!!
> >
> >
> > Senad
> 
> Senad - it is really to cover the inability of 'average' people to
understand
> CLI. Any 4 year old can run a GUI and that is why the skill level of
people
> programming phone systems has gone down hill so much.  It really is a
profit
> driven decision by management to get cheaper employees and make more
money.
> 
> Brett
> 
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