[PATCH] Beautified MacroLogFeature

[Loïc Corbasson]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 21:24, Alexander Neundorf <neundorf at kde.org> wrote:

> On Thursday 19 February 2009, Sebastian Trüg wrote:
> > On Thursday 19 February 2009 18:23:01 Sebastian Trüg wrote:
> > > > I agree with Allen -- when I compile a module, the information "you
> are
> > > > missing this and that" is much more important than the information "I
> > > > found this and that". For the missing stuff I might have to take
> > > > action. For the found stuff there is no problem, so there is little
> > > > point in filling 3 screens with "I found this and that, so you'll get
> > > > such and such features"... we don't list the features that one gets
> in
> > > > all cases, either
> > > >
> > > > :-) I think all that's needed is a short confirmation that "foo" was
> > > > : found
> > > >
> > > > after you installed it.
> > >
> > > well, OK then. I will just use my own local copy for K3b then, because
> > > frankly, I really don't like the output as it is now.
> >
> > Sorry, this sounds way to aggressive. And that was not my intention. What
> I
> > should have written is:
>
> No problem.
> Actually I agree with you, and also also agree that your version looks
> nicer.
> But one of the things was that there should be only one line per package,
> so
> it's easy to grep for stuff.
> And it's also correct that the things which were found shouldn't take too
> much
> space.
>
> Alex
>

How about making this an option then, that you can switch on and off, and
which is non-verbose like today as a default? I too like Sebastian's work
and find it very useful -- but I understand that it doesn't fit all use
cases, e.g. making grepping difficult.

Cheers,
Loïc
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