Re: [Gimp-developer] The new bug report dialog

[Tobias Jakobs <tobias jakobs gmail com>]

Perhaps it would help to add the undo stack to the text in the pop-up dialogue.

Regards,
Tobias

2018-02-20 19:20 GMT+01:00 Elle Stone <ellestone ninedegreesbelow com>:
> I just filed four bug reports generated by the new bug report dialog.
>
> The new bug report dialog pops up fairly often, though I haven't filed bugs
> for most of the times it's popped up. Are there some guidelines for using
> this new pop-up dialog?
>
> For example, for the bug I just filed related to solid noise, searching the
> auto-generated text, the word "solid" is on four different lines: lines 101,
> 144, 393, 436. If I didn't know for sure that this particular bug report
> pop-up really was from running the solid noise filter, it's not likely that
> I'd have looked at lines 101, 144, 393, and 436 or known what to put in the
> subject line of the bug report.
>
> In other words, is there a place in the print-out where people can reliably
> look to see what action caused the bug report dialog to pop up, that's
> appropriate to put in the subject line, and perhaps appropriate for
> searching for duplicate bug reports?
>
> And should people file bug reports for *all* such pop-up bug reports? For
> the solid noise bug report, that's reliably repeatable (even though the
> filter seems to work just fine). But for the other three bugs I just filed,
> I had to search through the text to make a guess as to what actually made
> the bug report pop-up appear.
>
> Best,
> Elle
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