Improving Dr Konqi for developers

Milian Wolff mail at milianw.de
Tue Aug 10 18:23:01 BST 2010


Aurélien Gâteau, 10.08.2010:
> On 10/08/2010 11:02, David Jarvie wrote:
> > On Mon, August 9, 2010 1:50 pm, George Kiagiadakis wrote:
> >> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Milian Wolff <mail at milianw.de> wrote:
> >>> 1) "jump to crash" button or similar. Dr Konqi is nice enough to insert
> >>> [KCrash handler] in the BT, but so far I have to navigate there
> >>> manually. Why
> >>> not make that faster?
> >> 
> >> That would be useful, I have thought about that as well.
> > 
> > Why not apply an initial scroll to the backtrace so that the crash is
> > shown at the top when first displayed? That would avoid the need for a
> > new button. My guess is that most developers will initially want to see
> > the crash first anyway, so it would also save one button click/scroll
> > action when it first displays. If somebody wants to see the backtrace
> > from the top (as it is shown currently), it's easy to manually scroll to
> > the top.
> 
> That would be great, indeed!

indeed, that makes sense.

> >>> 3) open file, when hovering a URL I'd sometimes like to open that one
> >>> quickly,
> >>> just like e.g. Konsole offers me to.
> >> 
> >> Are there URLs in the backtrace?
> > 
> > I also am puzzled by the mention of URLs in the backtrace.
> 
> I guess he refers to the source files from the backtrace.

exactly :)
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Milian Wolff
mail at milianw.de
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