RFC: Disable DrKonqi

Martin Graesslin mgraesslin at kde.org
Tue Nov 17 07:52:35 UTC 2015


On Monday, November 16, 2015 11:58:45 AM CET Weng Xuetian wrote:
> Just FYI, on a systemd based system, the coredump is already
> automatically stored in journal and can be accessed easily by
> coredumpctl.

Good to know. That could make my life easier :-)

> 
> Personally I use drkonqi a lot to fix issues, it's more visible for me
> to notice the problem (as developer).

Yes for developers (debug builds) it clearly should stay enabled.

> 
> I just wonder whether drkonqi provides some extra functionality other
> than bug report, e.g. restart the crashed program?.

That's provided by the KCrash framework. You can specify as a developer how it 
should behave (e.g. autostart).

Cheers
Martin

> 
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 4:38 AM, Martin Graesslin <mgraesslin at kde.org> 
wrote:
> > On Monday, November 16, 2015 12:11:09 PM CET Luca Beltrame wrote:
> >> In data lunedì 16 novembre 2015 10:50:01 CET, Sebastian Kügler ha 
scritto:
> >> > us, and I also think that it would be cheating to just hide the drkonqi
> >> > window, but on the other hand, if it improves the user experience,
> >> > that's
> >> > good, no?
> >> 
> >> With my forum admin hat on: what I'm supposed to tell a user if he/she
> >> experiences a crash and DrKonqi is disabled?
> > 
> > Possibilities:
> > * have DrKonqui use an SNI where it reports to
> > * easy way to enable DrKonqui (useful for reproducable bugs)
> > * show a notification on crash (not so useful with plasma restarts)
> > * store coredumps somewhere
> > * ...
> > 
> > Cheers
> > Martin
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