dogtail-devel [Bug 321625] New: Better debug names for search results in procedural.py

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           Summary: Better debug names for search results in procedural.py
           Product: dogtail
           Version: CVS HEAD
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Normal
         Component: Framework
        AssignedTo: dogtail-maint gnome bugs
        ReportedBy: dmalcolm redhat com
         QAContact: dogtail-maint gnome bugs
                CC: all-bugs bugzilla gnome org


Nodes have a debugName attribute which is set up by a search, by calling a
method on the Predicate class.  This gives nice readable debug names for the nodes
e.g. 
"File" menu
"Cancel" button
etc

All of the searches in procedural.py seem to be ultimately doing a search using
a GenericPredicate.  This gives you a very generic debug name for the result node
e.g. 
name="File" roleName="menu"
name="Cancel" roleName="button"

I think the former style of debug names are much better, and it would be good to
get this supported throughout the procedural.py API.  This could be done by
either using more specific Predicate subclasses, or by simply overwriting the
Node.debugName variable (I'd greatly prefer the former approach since it
leverages lots of existing code e.g. handling i18n)

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