Helper to collect more info in bug-buddy
- From: Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com>
- To: desktop-devel-list gnome org, Alexl redhat com
- Subject: Helper to collect more info in bug-buddy
- Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 10:06:39 -0600
Hi,
I recently added code to Nautilus to collect logging information. This
log is dumped to a file in the user's home directory when Nautilus
crashes [1].
However, it is cumbersome to tell users, "please send that file as well
as the bug-buddy report when you get a crash". It would be good if
bug-buddy would pick up that file and append it to its own debug log.
Alex Larsson suggested that our .desktop files could specify a
per-module script that would collect more info for bug-buddy. For
Nautilus, this would be something like
X-bug-buddy-collect-script = nautilus-debug-log-helper.sh
And that script, nautilus-debug-log-helper.sh would simply contain
#!/bin/sh
cat ~/nautilus-debug-log.txt
since ~/nautilus-debug-log.txt is where Nautilus dumps its own debug
log.
The idea is that programs that collect their own debugging data should
be able to tell bug-buddy show to pick up that data for its own logs.
Thoughts?
[1]
http://primates.ximian.com/~federico/news-2006-10.html#nautilus-logging
Federico
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