On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Jérôme Gardou <[email protected]>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 >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> > > 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 [email protected]
