drkonqi debug launcher

Harald Sitter sitter at kde.org
Fri Mar 17 12:46:11 UTC 2017


hola

as it turns out drkonqi has a (hidden) feature with which it can
launch a terminal with a debugger (e.g. gdb) attached to the crashed
process.

This was broken for a year and no one noticed ([1] fixes it)

drkonqi(13498)/(default) DefaultDebuggerLauncher::start: "konsole
--nofork -e gdb -nw -p %pid %execpath"
Unknown options: n, w.

I appreciate that this feature looks nice on paper, I really have to
wonder if this code is worth keeping around considering apparently no
one noticed it being broken for a year.

Additionally this feature is meant to be off by default as to not make
things yet more complicated for end users. However, this default was
also broken during the time period in question, so in fact this
feature was 100% visible, and yet, no one noticed that it was broken.
That is to say: 100% of users could have used it, 0% did or at least
didn't care to report it being broken...

Can we get rid of it plz?

[1] https://cgit.kde.org/konsole.git/commit/?id=a779c8314a7d27bb4691c220f793540e6f84f6c9

HS


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