faultrep:display useful information in ReportFault

Erich Hoover ehoover at mines.edu
Sun Feb 22 15:15:42 CST 2009


On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Jérôme Gardou <jerome.gardou at gmail.com>wrote:

> Erich Hoover a écrit :
>
>> I know quite a few people (my converts) that run applications (mostly
>> games) where they launch the application from an icon and there is no
>> console.  They've complained to me every once in a while that they would
>> much prefer a dialog informed them when their application crashes.
>>  Personally, I think that fatal errors (including things like "a DLL could
>> not be found") should launch a dialog if a terminal is not available (if
>> "TERM" is not set).
>>
>> Erich Hoover
>> ehoover at mines.edu <mailto:ehoover at mines.edu>
>>
>
> Why not writing directly debug output in a file instead of redirecting it
> to stderr. After all, Xorg has its own log, why not /tmp/wine.0.log ?
>
> And ReportFault would be "Your application crashed because of unexpected
> behaviour. Please report a bug to http://bugs.winehq.org. Don't forget to
> attach /tmp/wine.0.log. Please be kind and search for existing bug before
> reporting."
>

For the people I know that sounds like it would work.  Provided that that
message appeared as a dialog (if run without a terminal) and they wouldn't
need to do anything special to activate the feature then I think that would
help a lot for the non-terminal-savvy folks.

Erich Hoover
ehoover at mines.edu
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