Re: [Gimp-developer] Console window on Win32

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, Jared Kells wrote:

> You don't see an xterm open if you launch a gtk app from almost any 
> window manager under X11 so why should it be any different on 
> windows?

A well-configured X11 sends stderr output to a log that users can 
examine if need be.

Failing that, users of X11 are often fairly familiar with the concept 
of a terminal window, and can reasonably be asked by a developer, 
responding to a bug report, to try launching the app in question from
a command prompt to see what stderr has to say.

Neither of the above apply on Windows.  Most users have no notion of 
what a console window is.  And the console is in fact barely usable in 
most cases, given that many programs that are launched from Start or
from desktop icons are not in the path, and may be buried in 
directories whose names have spaces in them.

Allin Cottrell