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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: Announce : KBugReport
From:       Hetz Ben Hamo <hetz () cobol2java ! com>
Date:       1999-12-12 8:05:04
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Hi,

I would suggest to do some sort of trick (which Netscape on Windows
does), is that before it crashes/seg. faults/core dumps - it pops up
this bug report issue and (optionally) sends also the core file
comrpessed...

Just a small idea..

Hetz

David Faure wrote:
> 
> Something we wanted to do for a very long time : a user interface
> for sending bug reports. Following to the french team asking me
> my ideas about it, I decided to write such a thing : a dialog box
> to enter the bug report and send the mail.
> It's committed in kdenonbeta/kbugreport for now.
> 
> Features : appname(auto), version(not yet auto), severity, subject, text,
> "From" field using kcmemail settings, button to launch kcmemail.
> It uses sendmail, with 'mail' as a fallback.
> 
> It's designed to be part of libkdeui after Krash, unless anybody objects
> of course.
> 
> As to how to call that dialog box : I didn't see how to do that from
> the about box (which contains HTML links and already enough buttons...)
> so I'm thinking rather of adding a new menu item in KHelpMenu : "Report Bug..."
> 
> I'm also about to add it in konqueror for now. This will allow
> real-world testing of the bug-report dialog, before moving it to libkdeui.
> 
> Any objections ? Comments ?
> 
> PS : you can test kdenonbeta/kbugreport, it sends the mail to me
> (not to bugs.kde.org), so don't hesitate !
> The version in konqueror will be the same but sending the mail to
> the real buglist, in order to archive konqueror bugs :-)
> 
> --
> David FAURE
> david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
> http://home.clara.net/faure/
> KDE, Making The Future of Computing Available Today

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