This is a great idea - Evolution would benefit most from this. Lately, I have noticed myself frequently asking bug reporters to fetch Log files/messages to supplement the stack traces that are filed on bugzilla and it will be a great help if we could have these information collected by the program automatically and included with bug buddy traces.
Harish On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 10:06 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: > Hi, > > I recently added code to Nautilus to collect logging information. This > log is dumped to a file in the user's home directory when Nautilus > crashes [1]. > > However, it is cumbersome to tell users, "please send that file as well > as the bug-buddy report when you get a crash". It would be good if > bug-buddy would pick up that file and append it to its own debug log. > > Alex Larsson suggested that our .desktop files could specify a > per-module script that would collect more info for bug-buddy. For > Nautilus, this would be something like > > X-bug-buddy-collect-script = nautilus-debug-log-helper.sh > > And that script, nautilus-debug-log-helper.sh would simply contain > > #!/bin/sh > cat ~/nautilus-debug-log.txt > > since ~/nautilus-debug-log.txt is where Nautilus dumps its own debug > log. > > The idea is that programs that collect their own debugging data should > be able to tell bug-buddy show to pick up that data for its own logs. > > Thoughts? > > [1] > http://primates.ximian.com/~federico/news-2006-10.html#nautilus-logging > > Federico > > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
