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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: added debug areas
From:       Jeroen.Wijnhout () kdemail ! net
Date:       2003-10-13 16:45:11
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On Monday 13 October 2003 05:39 pm, \"shaheed r. haque\" wrote:
> Quoting Jeroen Wijnhout <Jeroen.Wijnhout@kdemail.net>:
> 
>
> > The point of having debug areas is, IMHO, that you can turn off the debug
> > 
 messages of the libraries your app is using. As a developer you have
> > complete 
> > control over the debug messages your app is printing, but not over debug
> > 
 messages of the libs. Without the areas your stdout would get flooded
> > with messages from the libs, so it is nice to be able to turn them off
> > selectively.
>
> 
> Errr, its not about me, the developer of the app. Its about users who
> cannot 
 distinguish code that I put in a library versus code that I put in
> an app. When my users say "your app is broken", I want to be able to say
> "please mr. user, run kdebugdialog, enable my debug output, run the app
> from the command line, and send me the results".
> 
> As I understand it, debug output is off by default, and I have to ask for
> it to 
 be enabled.
> 

I understand your wish, but I was merely stating what I thought was the 
intended use of the debug areas. You're asking for something the areas are 
not intended for. Personally, I agree with you, it would be nice if you could 
turn on the debug info for a application via some rc file.

best,
Jeroen
 
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