Bugreporting barrier is too low with the new Dr. Konqi

[Darío Andrés]

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
> On 06.11.09 12:27:23, Darío Andrés wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
>> > On 02.11.09 23:43:57, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
>> >> On 02.11.09 19:01:07, Darío Andrés wrote:
>> >> > On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
>> >> > [...]
>> >> > May be I forgot some other suggestion...
>> >> >
>> >> > If you have any other idea in order to improve the process and reduce
>> >> > our work, please tell us :)
>> >>
>> >> Thanks for the extensive information, indeed the KDE4.4 dialog sounds
>> >> like a major improvement already. The only suggestion I have from my
>> >> experience with KDevelop is that one could disable submitting a report
>> >> via Dr. Konqi to bugzilla if there's a duplicate found. However I do see
>> >> your point there that the user alone might not identify the situation
>> >> correctly.
>> >>
>> >> Ok, I guess I'll just try to live with what we get right now and hope
>> >> that distributions will ship the new KDevelop beta really soon so the
>> >> reports I've closed recently stop..
>> >
>> > Given the amount of duplicated crash reports in this week I'm changing my
>> > mind. I'm going to disable the crashhandler from Dr. Konqi in KDevelop, its
>> > simply too much spam coming in to be able to handle this.
>> >
>>
>> Mh, I remembered something, in KDE4.3 DrKonqi doesn't work properly
>> with an empty bug address. (implemented in 4.4)
>> Call KAboutData->setBugAddress("http://bugs.kde.org/");    (as DrKonqi
>> only recognizes "submit at bugs.kde.org" to enable the crash reporting
>> process for BKO). This way the users would still know where to report
>> issues, but they are going to do it manually... (assistant disabled)
>
> Thats not what I had in mind. I was more thinking into the direction of
> installing my own signal handler (which would overwrite dr. konqi's) and
> then simply let it crash as it always did. (hopefully re-using the code for
> the no-crashhandler commandline swicht).
>

Sorry about wasting your time :-\

> Andreas
>
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