Re: GUI applications writing garbage to stdout/stderr

2015-01-28 Thread Kamil Paral
All those are warnings, not garbage or debug output. File bugs about those, there should be zero warnings in normal usage. Shouldn't they trigger abrt then? more importantly, is it possible to capture that in the QA process during distribution composition? I believe a lot of those

Re: GUI applications writing garbage to stdout/stderr

2015-01-28 Thread Ian Malone
On 27 January 2015 at 19:10, Przemek Klosowski przemek.klosow...@nist.gov wrote: On 01/27/2015 07:03 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote: All those are warnings, not garbage or debug output. File bugs about those, there should be zero warnings in normal usage. Shouldn't they trigger abrt then? more

Re: GUI applications writing garbage to stdout/stderr

2015-01-28 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On 01/27/2015 07:03 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote: All those are warnings, not garbage or debug output. File bugs about those, there should be zero warnings in normal usage. Shouldn't they trigger abrt then? Yes, that would be a great help towards making the warnings filed and fixed. Care

Re: GUI applications writing garbage to stdout/stderr

2015-01-27 Thread Kamil Paral
The warnings only happen when using development versions of GTK+. So it shouldn't happen in F21, or in the future in F22, just in rawhide. So when I talked about GTK, I meant the whole GNOME stack, like GLib, gvfs, st, clutter, mutter, gnome-shell, gstreamer, etc. I guess not all of these

Re: GUI applications writing garbage to stdout/stderr

2015-01-27 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 01/27/2015 07:03 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote: All those are warnings, not garbage or debug output. File bugs about those, there should be zero warnings in normal usage. Shouldn't they trigger abrt then? more importantly, is it possible to capture that in the QA process during distribution

Re: GUI applications writing garbage to stdout/stderr

2015-01-27 Thread Bastien Nocera
All those are warnings, not garbage or debug output. File bugs about those, there should be zero warnings in normal usage. - Original Message - The warnings only happen when using development versions of GTK+. So it shouldn't happen in F21, or in the future in F22, just in rawhide.

Re: GUI applications writing garbage to stdout/stderr

2015-01-26 Thread Kamil Paral
Thanks for the encouragement. For the record, I filed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1184038 (GTK apps) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1184868 (evince) I very much recommend you to report these issues (also) to GNOME Bugzilla. GNOME/GTK developers don't follow Red

Re: GUI applications writing garbage to stdout/stderr

2015-01-26 Thread Bastien Nocera
The warnings only happen when using development versions of GTK+. So it shouldn't happen in F21, or in the future in F22, just in rawhide. - Original Message - Thanks for the encouragement. For the record, I filed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1184038 (GTK apps)

Re: GUI applications writing garbage to stdout/stderr

2015-01-22 Thread Marcel Oliver
Pete Zaitcev writes: On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 11:22:57 +0100 Marcel Oliver m.oli...@jacobs-university.de wrote: Are these considered bugs that I should file against the package? Is there a policy that applies? I think you should file. I had in the past made maintainers of gvim

Re: GUI applications writing garbage to stdout/stderr

2015-01-19 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 11:22:57 +0100 Marcel Oliver m.oli...@jacobs-university.de wrote: Are these considered bugs that I should file against the package? Is there a policy that applies? I think you should file. I had in the past made maintainers of gvim (vim-X11) and evince take action to fix

Re: GUI applications writing garbage to stdout/stderr

2015-01-17 Thread Kevin Kofler
Björn Persson wrote: Except when they have really serious errors. I once had an X problem that prevented Openoffice from working. It showed no window, output nothing, and terminated immediately with an exit code of zero. In other words it behaved just like the command true. That's going a

Re: GUI applications writing garbage to stdout/stderr

2015-01-17 Thread Kevin Kofler
Orion Poplawski wrote: Sounds good to me - my users (old unix folks who always use the command line) are always complaining about this. Where do we tweak that? Unfortunately, it can't really be done without modifications to either Qt or the Qt applications. Either we build the applications

Re: GUI applications writing garbage to stdout/stderr

2015-01-16 Thread Björn Persson
Kevin Kofler wrote: I'm with you, debugging spam needs to go away, GUI applications have no business writing anything at all to the console, ever. Except when they have really serious errors. I once had an X problem that prevented Openoffice from working. It showed no window, output nothing, and

Re: GUI applications writing garbage to stdout/stderr

2015-01-16 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 16.01.2015 um 10:50 schrieb Björn Persson: Kevin Kofler wrote: I'm with you, debugging spam needs to go away, GUI applications have no business writing anything at all to the console, ever. Except when they have really serious errors. I once had an X problem that prevented Openoffice

Re: GUI applications writing garbage to stdout/stderr

2015-01-16 Thread Orion Poplawski
On 01/15/2015 03:23 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Jaroslav Reznik wrote: So it's kWarning, not kDebug and it can't be ignored by using kdebugdialog settings. There are two options - fix the underlying issue or change kWarning to kDebug - it just depends on how important it is and it seem as Harald

Re: GUI applications writing garbage to stdout/stderr

2015-01-15 Thread Kevin Kofler
Reindl Harald wrote: the same for broken desktop-files and what not reported again and again in that context and nobody cares about - so why annoy the ordinary user with that debug informations all day long? I'm with you, debugging spam needs to go away, GUI applications have no business

Re: GUI applications writing garbage to stdout/stderr

2015-01-15 Thread Kevin Kofler
Jaroslav Reznik wrote: So it's kWarning, not kDebug and it can't be ignored by using kdebugdialog settings. There are two options - fix the underlying issue or change kWarning to kDebug - it just depends on how important it is and it seem as Harald already pointed out - nobody really cares. I

Re: GUI applications writing garbage to stdout/stderr

2015-01-15 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 15.01.2015 um 23:23 schrieb Kevin Kofler: Jaroslav Reznik wrote: So it's kWarning, not kDebug and it can't be ignored by using kdebugdialog settings. There are two options - fix the underlying issue or change kWarning to kDebug - it just depends on how important it is and it seem as Harald

Re: GUI applications writing garbage to stdout/stderr

2015-01-15 Thread Björn Persson
Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 15.01.2015 um 00:36 schrieb Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek: the real problem with that crap messages is that if you are about writing a longer command line and the in background mode started GUI app decides to blow out it's helpful messages they

Re: GUI applications writing garbage to stdout/stderr

2015-01-15 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
- Original Message - On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 11:22:57AM +0100, Marcel Oliver wrote: When I run okular I see: Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString) kbuildsycoca4 running... okular(16844) KMimeTypeRepository::parents:

Re: GUI applications writing garbage to stdout/stderr

2015-01-15 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
- Original Message - - Original Message - So it's kWarning, not kDebug and it can't be ignored by using kdebugdialog settings. There are two options - fix the underlying issue or change kWarning to kDebug - it just depends on how important it is and it seem as Harald already

Re: GUI applications writing garbage to stdout/stderr

2015-01-15 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
- Original Message - - Original Message - On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 11:22:57AM +0100, Marcel Oliver wrote: When I run okular I see: Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString) kbuildsycoca4 running...

Re: GUI applications writing garbage to stdout/stderr

2015-01-14 Thread Alexander Ploumistos
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:09 AM, Björn Persson Bjorn@rombobjörn.se wrote: Alexander Ploumistos wrote: On the other hand, if every message that was not meant for the user were suppressed, it would be very difficult to troubleshoot such a program, should an actual bug come along, because you

Re: GUI applications writing garbage to stdout/stderr

2015-01-14 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:35:02AM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 15.01.2015 um 00:29 schrieb Alexander Ploumistos: On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 1:16 AM, Björn Persson Bjorn@rombobjörn.se mailto:Bjorn@rombobjörn.se wrote: If they don't have such a build-time option, then what I'm saying is

Re: GUI applications writing garbage to stdout/stderr

2015-01-14 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 15.01.2015 um 00:29 schrieb Alexander Ploumistos: On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 1:16 AM, Björn Persson Bjorn@rombobjörn.se mailto:Bjorn@rombobjörn.se wrote: If they don't have such a build-time option, then what I'm saying is that if one were to suppress the messages, then one should do

Re: GUI applications writing garbage to stdout/stderr

2015-01-14 Thread Björn Persson
Alexander Ploumistos wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:09 AM, Björn Persson Bjorn@rombobjörn.se wrote: Alexander Ploumistos wrote: On the other hand, if every message that was not meant for the user were suppressed, it would be very difficult to troubleshoot such a program, should an actual

Re: GUI applications writing garbage to stdout/stderr

2015-01-14 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 15.01.2015 um 00:36 schrieb Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek: the real problem with that crap messages is that if you are about writing a longer command line and the in background mode started GUI app decides to blow out it's helpful messages they appear unasked in the middle of your input and so

Re: GUI applications writing garbage to stdout/stderr

2015-01-14 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 15.01.2015 um 00:13 schrieb Reindl Harald: Am 14.01.2015 um 23:36 schrieb Alexander Ploumistos: On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:09 AM, Björn Persson wrote: Alexander Ploumistos wrote: On the other hand, if every message that was not meant for the user were suppressed, it would be

Re: GUI applications writing garbage to stdout/stderr

2015-01-14 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 14.01.2015 um 23:36 schrieb Alexander Ploumistos: On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:09 AM, Björn Persson wrote: Alexander Ploumistos wrote: On the other hand, if every message that was not meant for the user were suppressed, it would be very difficult to troubleshoot such a

Re: GUI applications writing garbage to stdout/stderr

2015-01-14 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:36:27AM +0200, Alexander Ploumistos wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:09 AM, Björn Persson Bjorn@rombobjörn.se wrote: Alexander Ploumistos wrote: On the other hand, if every message that was not meant for the user were suppressed, it would be very difficult to

Re: GUI applications writing garbage to stdout/stderr

2015-01-14 Thread Alexander Ploumistos
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 1:16 AM, Björn Persson Bjorn@rombobjörn.se wrote: If they don't have such a build-time option, then what I'm saying is that if one were to suppress the messages, then one should do it with a run-time option, not a build-time option. Then no different build would be

Re: GUI applications writing garbage to stdout/stderr

2015-01-14 Thread Björn Persson
Alexander Ploumistos wrote: On the other hand, if every message that was not meant for the user were suppressed, it would be very difficult to troubleshoot such a program, should an actual bug come along, because you would need a different build to get useful output in the console or a logging

Re: GUI applications writing garbage to stdout/stderr

2015-01-14 Thread Alexander Ploumistos
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 12:22 PM, Marcel Oliver m.oli...@jacobs-university.de wrote: Some of the main culprints for me are nemo, evince, and okular; The applications that you mention are parts of specific desktop environments. The messages that you see are not meant to be visible to the user,

Re: GUI applications writing garbage to stdout/stderr

2015-01-14 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 11:22:57AM +0100, Marcel Oliver wrote: Hallo, there is one more thing which I found really annoying after upgrading to F21. I like to launch GUI applications from the command line (I know there is some debate on whether this habit makes me a target user of Fedora,

Re: GUI applications writing garbage to stdout/stderr

2015-01-14 Thread François Cami
Hello, On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Marcel Oliver m.oli...@jacobs-university.de wrote: Many GUI applications write garbage to either stdout or stderr, making the terminal windows difficult to view and navigate. (...) Some of the main culprints for me are nemo, evince, and okular; if I