View Single Post
Posts: 61 | Thanked: 27 times | Joined on Jul 2010
#512
It is great that you have a Wiki for this project; but it has nearly nothing in it.

You have very kindly answered so many of us in this blog, on so many questions about QGVDIAL. But this blog is now monstrous, and a newbie may not have time to read the through the hundreds of posts.

I think it should have notes to get a novice started with QGVDIAL.
For any topic, it should say:
  • what it is for.
  • do I need it.
  • How do I use it. (or at least a web link to somebody's instructions).
Example topics might be:
  • Contacts REFRESH
  • Inbox REFRESH
  • PROXY SERVER
  • Mosquitto
  • DIAL Settings
One I would like to know myself is systems requirements to run QGVDIAL under Windows.
(Does it need a SIP softphone to handle the Telepathy or a TAPI interface driver. etc.)

For Mosquitto: In a great number of posts, you say
Mosquitto is a message broker that implements the MQ Telemetry Transport protocol version 3. MQTT provides a lightweight method of carrying out messaging using a publish/subscribe model.
Which is English to a Linux programmer; broken English to a Windows programmer; but means nothing to the average user.

Now in February 2011, you once said:
What should the average user do with these packages: At this moment, nothing. Don't bother installing them.
This announcement is targeted more towards developers.
If this is still true, then that would be an excellent in your Wiki.

For PROXY SERVER, it could start with:
a proxy server is a server (a computer system or an application) that acts as an intermediary for requests from clients seeking resources from other servers.
And hopefully mention what kind of error message would indicate that a Proxy Server is needed.

For Dial Settings: may be:
"Dial out": the call is placed by calling your Google VoiceMail, and asking it to place the out-going call.
"Dial Back": The Google Voice website is contacted, and it is asked to place the call.
GV website first calls you and then calls the out-going number. And then it connects the two.
"Dial Back" requires a data connection and a voice connection, while "Dial Out" only needs a voice connection.
 

The Following User Says Thank You to kbyork For This Useful Post: