DrKonqi improvement idea

[Niko Sams]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 22:20, Teemu Rytilahti <tpr at iki.fi> wrote:
> Niko Sams wrote:
>
>>> Personally I'd go for a solution that also tries to register the last 20
>>> keystrokes and 20 mouse clicks (qt global event listener) and if and when
>>> a crash occurs that info can be send with the backtrace.  So even if
>>> there are no debug packages installed we get some info to do data-mining
>>> on.
>> That would provide useful information? I guess it depends on the
>> application and bug.
>
> In some cases yes, though not sure about how the probable privacy issues
> could be handled nicely there in a way to not make people to avoid using it.
> Not sure how useful it'd be for crashes, and sorry for hijacking the topic
> for a bit again, in some cases a screenshot showing the problem would be
> nice. Perhaps the report dialog could allow one to take a screenshot and
> annotate it someway, just to make it clearer for triagers and developers
> what's the intention :-)
>
>>> Either case, I'd think you want something custom written. Its not too
>>> much work to do the basics and maybe we can steal some code that compares
>>> backtraces and steal some ideas or code for on-disk data-store of those
>>> backtraces.
>> +1
>> The existing solutions are very complex and have lots of features. And
>> they solve different
>> use cases.
>
> Have you already looked into traceparser (or any other similar system) to
> see how it does the tricks? Just wondering if code from there could be
> reused.
not yet, but I've seen it's perl :( and apperently integrated into
bugzilla (just reading the project
description)

Niko