kDebug improvements

[Lubos Lunak]

On Wednesday 17 January 2007 00:37, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this is kind of a feature request and to get the thoughts of the kdelibs
> developers on this. I don't recall any discussion about kDebug (except
> for the naming change) in the last couple of months..
>
> How about making kDebug work like qDebug, so it

 Speaking of kDebug working like qDebug, I don't think we should take it too 
far. Basically I'd like to see r608522 reverted, if only I knew how :( :

- the template stream operator is awfully hungy. I have few additional kdebug 
operators in kwin and after this change the type has to exactly match my 
operator. As soon as there's a const added or it's an inherited class all I 
get is a classname and the pointer value, really useful :(.

- the output format for data types includes unnecessary information that just 
makes it longer and harder to read. I know that e.g. a window position is a 
point, what else could it be, so why do I need to be told that it's a QPoint? 
I wasn't the only one disliking this after this change had been made IIRC.

 The problem with reverting that commit is however that it'd again introduce 
kdecore dependency on ui types. Ideas?

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