[Bug 15435] New: Wine logs too verbose

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15435

           Summary: Wine logs too verbose
           Product: Wine
           Version: CVS/GIT
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: wine-bugs at winehq.org
        ReportedBy: dank at kegel.com


Running any application generates repetitive log information
that makes uploading and analyzing logs difficult, and confuses users.

For instance, here's a tally of the log messages generated by
just launching Firefox and loading one little web site:

    239 fixme:font:ExtTextOutW flags ETO_NUMERICSLOCAL | ETO_NUMERICSLATIN |
ETO_PDY unimplemented
    105 fixme:resource:GetGuiResources (0xffffffff,0): stub
     60 fixme:ntdll:NtLockFile I/O completion on lock not implemented yet
      2 fixme:file:MoveFileWithProgressW MOVEFILE_WRITE_THROUGH unimplemented
...

It would be good to reduce this verbosity, without hiding
useful fixmes.  Because it's difficult to know which ones
are useful, let's focus on just the few highly repetitive
messages.  

One thing we've done in the past is added a check to only print 
the fixme the first time it's hit.  This is probably the way to go.

Another thing that is a little easier to do is to change
the fixme to a trace; if we do that, we might want to put 'fixme:' 
as the first thing in the trace message, to remember that it
needs fixing.


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