how about creating something like syslog for kde? when an application finds a problem, it write some output to /var/log/kde or similar.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Iñaki Baz Castillo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ibc@aliax.net">ibc@aliax.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">El Jueves, 19 de Noviembre de 2009, Marvin Lampe escribió:<br>
> Everyone will surely know a situation like that: You're running a program<br>
> for a while and suddenly something unexpected happens. The application<br>
> crashes, freezes or gets insufferable slow.<br>
> You forgot to start the program inside a console before, and now can't get<br>
> any information for debugging. The conditions which led to the crash<br>
> aren't reproducible (you don't remember what you did since<br>
> the launch of the program or you just have no idea what the hell caused<br>
> the crash) and you can't solve the problem now. The only thing you can do<br>
> is to wait until the problem occurs again and then hopefully<br>
> have started the application inside a shell...<br>
><br>
> I think it would be nice to have a feature for displaying the stdout of an<br>
> application in a handy way without having to start it in a separate<br>
> console.<br>
> Every time a new application gets launched, there should be a shell<br>
> starting with it. The main problem with this is that the shell would be<br>
> quite annoying until it gets useful. It consumes place in<br>
> your window list and is floating around your desktop. So my idea here is<br>
> to put that console on the process' window back, and allow the user to<br>
> flip the window by a quadruple click,<br>
> pulling the lower right corner to the upper right or something like that,<br>
> perhaps with a nice compositing effect :-).<br>
> The possible problem of several child windows by one single application<br>
> (for example in The Gimp) could be solved by displaying the stdout of the<br>
> root process on the back of every child window.<br>
><br>
> I would appreciate you to comment on this.<br>
<br>
A great idea ;)<br>
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Iñaki Baz Castillo <<a href="mailto:ibc@aliax.net">ibc@aliax.net</a>><br>
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