Suggestion: shell on window's back

[Alvaro Aguilera]

how about creating something like syslog for kde? when an application finds
a problem, it write some output to /var/log/kde or similar.


On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc at aliax.net> wrote:

> El Jueves, 19 de Noviembre de 2009, Marvin Lampe escribió:
> > Everyone will surely know a situation like that: You're running a program
> > for a while and suddenly something unexpected happens. The application
> > crashes, freezes or gets insufferable slow.
> > You forgot to start the program inside a console before, and now can't
> get
> > any information for debugging. The conditions which led to the crash
> > aren't reproducible (you don't remember what you did since
> > the launch of the program or you just have no idea what the hell caused
> > the crash) and you can't solve the problem now. The only thing you can do
> > is to wait until the problem occurs again and then hopefully
> > have started the application inside a shell...
> >
> > I think it would be nice to have a feature for displaying the stdout of
> an
> > application in a handy way without having to start it in a separate
> > console.
> > Every time a new application gets launched, there should be a shell
> > starting with it. The main problem with this is that the shell would be
> > quite annoying until it gets useful. It consumes place in
> > your window list and is floating around your desktop. So my idea here is
> > to put that console on the process' window back, and allow the user to
> > flip the window by a quadruple click,
> > pulling the lower right corner to the upper right or something like that,
> > perhaps with a nice compositing effect :-).
> > The possible problem of several child windows by one single application
> > (for example in The Gimp) could be solved by displaying the stdout of the
> > root process on the back of every child window.
> >
> > I would appreciate you to comment on this.
>
> A great idea ;)
>
>
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