[RFC] Disable DrKonqi for KWin in stable releases

[Daniel Nicoletti]

The crash reports are there normally to help you fix a some bug
in the code, I know a flood of crash reports is a pain but what's the
biggest issue in them? I mean is the backtrace useless or the
description or even too many duplicates?

Aren't you afraid of losing good crash reports? and if Dr Konqui
could be tweaked to only send only good crash reports would that help?

2013/4/30 Martin Gräßlin <mgraesslin at kde.org>:
> Hi all,
>
> <tldr>KWin gets too many crash reports, let's disable DrKonqi</tldr>
>
> the latest post-Ubuntu-release crash report flood made me think that all the
> crashes we get are only causing work. There is no value in it except that we
> know that KWin once again crashed because Ubuntu is *insertrandominsulthere*.
> My initial idea was to discuss with Jonathan and Harald whether we could
> disable crash reporting just on Ubuntu.
>
> But thinking more about it: there is no benefit at all in the crash reports
> reported against stable packages. It's all upstream or downstream issues.
> Since January 1st, 132 crash reports were created but only 10 of them have
> been fixed. Out of these 10 fixed reports only two are for 4.10.0 (with one of
> them from a Kubuntu dev running pre-alpha of raring) and one is for 4.10.1.
> All the other reports are for the alphas and betas.
>
> My suggestion is therefore to push the following patch to stable branch and to
> future stable branches on final tagging day:
> diff --git a/kwin/main.cpp b/kwin/main.cpp
> index ed051f8..710c16d 100644
> --- a/kwin/main.cpp
> +++ b/kwin/main.cpp
> @@ -273,6 +273,7 @@ Application::Application()
>      connect(&owner, SIGNAL(lostOwnership()), SLOT(lostSelection()));
>
>      KCrash::setEmergencySaveFunction(Application::crashHandler);
> +    KCrash::setDrKonqiEnabled(false);
>      crashes = args->getOption("crashes").toInt();
>      if (crashes >= 4) {
>          // Something has gone seriously wrong
>
> We would still get the crash reports in master and during beta and RC for
> which we are interested, but all the junk would be disabled.
>
> The nice side effect would be that it would look like improved quality as
> normaly a user wouldn't notice a KWin crash. It's a short flicker during which
> the window decorations got recrated, but that's it. Has there been a crash if
> nobody is there to notice it?
>
> Opinions? Can somone convince me to not do it?
>
> --
> Martin Gräßlin
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