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--- Comment #12 from Ilya Bizyaev ---
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #11)
> I get all that, and I'm not totally unsympathetic because I've done user
> Because that UI clutter is the principal objection, how about a compromise:
> when you launch
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--- Comment #11 from Nate Graham ---
I get all that, and I'm not totally unsympathetic because I've done user
support both informally and professionally for over 20 years. However it seems
to me like your suggestion falls in that awkward valley of
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Ilya Bizyaev changed:
What|Removed |Added
Resolution|INTENTIONAL |WAITINGFORINFO
--- Comment #10 from Ilya
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Nate Graham changed:
What|Removed |Added
Status|NEEDSINFO |RESOLVED
Resolution|WAITINGFORINFO
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--- Comment #8 from Ilya Bizyaev ---
Well, in the first case Dolphin didn't crash, it just printed an error message
to stdout and kept running.
In the second case Itinerary remained running in the background, despite
failing to display a window.
As
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--- Comment #7 from Nate Graham ---
Sure they could: the app fails to launch, it shows a dialog box with an error
message in it, and the box could have a button in it or whatever that shows the
full command-line output.
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--- Comment #6 from Ilya Bizyaev ---
Hmm, I think that's better tracked separately then. I'm really not sure if it's
even possible to implement something like that reliably, and it would of course
require much more effort than a context menu item...
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--- Comment #5 from Nate Graham ---
I agree with you that this is a problem. I think that appwrapper product is a
better idea than your proposed solution though. :) If an app doesn't launch, it
is much more user-friendly for it to display a dialog box
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--- Comment #4 from Ilya Bizyaev ---
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #3)
> What is a use case for a non-nerd who needs to execute terminal commands?
> Even if they succeed in running the app in a terminal, the output will be
> useless to them,
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Nate Graham changed:
What|Removed |Added
Status|REOPENED|NEEDSINFO
Resolution|---
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Ilya Bizyaev changed:
What|Removed |Added
Resolution|NOT A BUG |---
Status|RESOLVED
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David Edmundson changed:
What|Removed |Added
Status|REPORTED|RESOLVED
Resolution|---
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