Plasmoid debugging

[Aleix Pol]

On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 7:23 AM, Mark Constable <markc at renta.net> wrote:
> I hope it's okay to ask a lame question about simply enabling debug
> output to the launching shell from a plasmoid via kpackagelauncherqml.
> My desktop is Ubuntu bionic with kubuntu-ci/stable packages and I am
> following the first example here...
>
> https://community.kde.org/Plasma/DeveloperGuide#An_App_in_5_Easy_Steps
>
> In my copy of plasma-framework/examples/developerguide/basic which
> has been installed and then launched with kpackagelauncherqml...
>
> // This message will end up being printed to the terminal
> //print("Color is now " + colorRect.color);
> console.log("Color is now " + colorRect.color);
>
> the above 2 lines do not output anything to the current shell and no
> other example I've tried as a simple QML script (either via qtcreator
> or just qmlscene) will output any debug info to any associated shell.
>
> I've tried the below and fiddling with various qtcreator settings...
>
> QT_QML_DEBUG=1 kpackagelauncherqml -a org.example.myplasmoid
> QT_LOGGING_TO_CONSOLE=1 kpackagelauncherqml -a org.example.myplasmoid
>
> I have both Qt 5.9.2 installed by the OS and Qt 5.10 in my ~/Qt folder.
>
> Any suggestion on how to get console output from a plasmoid?

That's because some distributions change stuff so debug information
don't show up on the users' systems.

A quick fix is to use console.warn().

`export QT_LOGGING_RULES="*.debug=true" ` should also do.

Aleix