Re: add ABRT panel

[Jakub Filak <jfilak redhat com>]

On Wednesday 31 of October 2012 14:47:34 Bastien Nocera wrote:
> Hello Jakub,
> 
> On Wed, 2012-10-31 at 13:45 +0100, Jakub Filak wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'm a member of ABRT Project crew [1]. We want to give users comfortable
> > way of configuration and the control center looks very comfortable ;).
> > Therefore we want to add a panel to gnome control center. Are you opened
> > to adding panels like this one?
> 
> We have a list of panels that we'd like to see integrated into the
> system settings:
> https://live.gnome.org/Design/SystemSettings
> 
> And Error reporting isn't something that really needs configuration,
> though there are plenty of design documents for how problems reporting
> should be integrated into the desktop at:
> https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting
> and:
> https://live.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Oops

We are working on it:
https://github.com/jfilak/abrt-gnome-oops

> 
> > I was wondering how to develop a new panel for gnome control center and I
> > was told that I have to develop a new panel as a part of gnome control
> > center. But I'm not very happy with this solution because it introduces a
> > dependency on ABRT. Is it possible to develop a panel as a plugin
> > provided by an other project?
> 
> All system settings panels are provided by gnome-control-center, we
> don't allow external ones.
> 
> > If it is impossible to develop a panel as a plugin, pleas take a look at
> > the attached patch (the patch introduces the ABRT panel).
> 
> You'll see from the design page above that a system settings panel isn't
> necessary for problem reporting (there might be a related option in the
> Privacy panel in the future though).

You are right, having an extra panel for ABRT doesn't make sense. But privacy 
panel isn't implemented yet. Should we wait until someone implements it or 
should I implement it (I'm ready to do it)?

> We would really be interested in people working to achieve the goals set
> in the design page for problem reporting.
> 
> Cheers