KDE crash manager additions, architecture issues

[Wolf S. Kappesser]

Brad Hards schrieb:
> On Thursday 09 October 2008 12:02:48 am Wolf S. Kappesser wrote:
>>>> I want to add some features to the kde crash manager. The documentation
>>>> of the kdelib source are quite "rare". Please give me some informations
>>>> about the internal structure of the kde system and the dependencies to
>>>> the systemkernel (linux). Please keep in mind the focus to topics and
>>>> answers related to k crashmanager.
>>> You haven't really asked a question, or told us what you are trying to do
>>> (e.g. what kind of features), or what level of background you have, or
>>> what problems you have, so this is necessarily a bit generic:
>> Does there a class which implements the crash manager (kcm)?
> Its not a single class. Look in kdebase/runtime/drkonqi/
> There is also a part in kdelibs: see below for links.
> 
>> How it named?
> drkonqi and kcrash seemed applicable.
> 
>> How does interact KDE with the underlying (Linux-)kernel?
> Nothing special. Seems fairly portable.
> 
>> How can I encapsulte the kcm to modify it? (see below)
> Don't know, suggest you read the code. It might not be possible.
> 
>> (Want to add some generic and optional sys spec infos to the submitted
>> email bug report for my convenience)
> Don't know how to do that.
> 
>>>  - you should start with Techbase: http://techbase.kde.org/Development
>>>  - kdelibs is, as the name suggests, a set of libraries. The API
>>> documentation for those libraries and other parts of KDE is found at
>>> http://api.kde.org/ - for many parts of KDE, you may have to read the
>>> source code to understand the functionality and architecture.
>> Yes I visited techbase. But there no doxyfile or so, I am right? :(
> There is. As I wrote above "The API documentation for those libraries and 
> other parts of KDE is found at http://api.kde.org/"
> http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdeui/html/kcrash_8cpp-source.html
> http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdeui/html/namespaceKCrash.html
> 
>> Secondary it is waste of time search the hole code to get complex
>> structure infos if there is only five+ sentence by a developer needed to
>> show me things work.
> But you'll learn much more by figuring out how KDE is organised if you do the 
> work yourself. In any case, I had to do the searching to advise you - I've 
> never looked at it before.
> 
>>>  - you may be able to do what you are looking for without modifying the
>>> libraries, using a plugin or special handler. Check for that before
>>> getting too much into the source (remembering that KDE requires source
>>> and binary compatibility).
>> Therefore I can use kplugin or kpart, I am right?
> Probably not in this case. You need to read the specific code you are trying 
> to modify in order to check how you can work with it.
> 
> Brad
> 
> 

I have looked around and asked myself if I use kbugbuster as base its 
better than a direct manipulation of the kdelibs. But I can't find the 
sources of KBugBuster on KDE.org! (Yes i am blind and stupid...)

Please give me a link to the sources of KBugBuster.

Best regards
WSK