I've made some progress on this if anyone wants some answers for posterity.
* Instead of using a struct I created a new class and I now pass an full
object. This let's me have default values.
The following are still eluding me:
* The signal "publish" seems unable to take two parameters. (I don't
With the help of other developers here on the list I managed to get my
logging class setup and working (thanks!). Now, that it's there, though, I
want to continue adding to it. The first big thing I want to do is come up
with default values for incoming messages (e.g. a default log level of
ERROR
