Bug#589683: reportbug: spews useless information messages when spawing editor

2010-07-20 Thread Bruce Sass
retitle 589683 Kate needs a "quiet" option stop Hi, Fair enough... I'm so use to verbose KDE apps that I automatically put them in the background and redirect output when I start one from a command line--of course everyone else should do the same. :D I tried a couple other "visual" editors, xj

Bug#589683: reportbug: spews useless information messages when spawing editor

2010-07-19 Thread Sandro Tosi
reassign 589683 kate thanks Hello Bruce, this seems to me a bug (even if at wishlist severity) in kate: if you want them to stop print those lengthy messages, ask them :) I can't redirect all output from text editor to dev/null or so: there might be cases when having their output on screen is usef

Bug#589683: reportbug: spews useless information messages when spawing editor

2010-07-19 Thread Bruce Sass
Package: reportbug Version: 4.12.4 Severity: wishlist It would be really nice if reportbug sent the information messages generated by Kate (KDE text editor) to /dev/null or a log file instead of the screen when not in debug/verbose mode. Here is a transcript of a session so you can see just how