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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: added debug areas
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicolasg () snafu ! de>
Date:       2003-10-13 18:02:40
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On Monday 13 October 2003 18:45, Jeroen.Wijnhout@kdemail.net wrote:
> 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.

But that *is* possible currently. You do not want KWord's messages then 
disable 32001. And so on throughout KOffice.

Of course, it means that at compile time kdebug was enable, which of course 
is not the case in distributions.

>
> best,
> Jeroen

Have a nice day!

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