Re: .desktop -> bugzilla

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 14:20, Luis Villa wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 13:00, jacob berkman wrote:
> > On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 11:07, fherrera onirica com wrote:
> > > 	Hi! Bug-buddy is a beautiful tool, and it makes easier to report 
> > > a bug to gnome, but it can be better, some toughts sbout it:
> > > 
> > > 	1 - bug-buddy includes two different uses:
> > > 		a) Bug-from-scratch reporting tool
> > > 		b) Crash interceptor and consecuent bug reporting
> > 
> > note that even in a), the user may still wish to report a "crash". 
> > bug-buddy will happily attach to a running (looping?  crashed but no
> > dialog?  hung due to thread deadlock?) app or a core file.
> 
> How?

by typing in the core file, or binary and pid in the 'debug info' page.

> > > 	Jacob, when reading all-applications:///, appname (from
> > > gnome-program stuff) == Exec ( from .desktop) resolve
> > > should work for all applications, shouldn't it? If this is possible we can
> > > skip the application selection (and someone suggested we can just ask for
> > > confirmation)
> > 
> > it's a little tricker than that:
> > 
> >         1.  some applications are multiple components, which have
> >         different binary names
> >         
> >         2.  b-b also queries bonobo-activation for applets, and the info
> >         it gets back doesn't indicate (directly) the binary name
> > 
> > a simple solution to both of these is to add another field:
> > 
> > X-Gnome-Bugzilla-OtherApplicationNames=evolution-mail;evolution-calendar;
> > 
> > to the .desktop file.
> 
> -OtherBinaryNames maybe? [Just for clarity.] Sounds good otherwise.
> 
> Oh, and is there some reason that if we get an exact match in the
> desktop file, we can't just skip that step, and if we don't have an
> exact match, we go through the 'normal' rigamarole?

skip which step?

jacob
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