[FusionDev] Crashhandler DE integration

[Sam Spilsbury]

Hmm. This is a good idea, but we need to solve two problems before it will
really shine.

1) We need something to detect stale screengrabs and relaunch compiz with
crashhandler if that happens.

2) Also, sometimes compiz can lock the entire X server. We need to find a
way around that.

Other than that I'm all for this.

On 8/11/07, Patrick Niklaus <marex at opencompositing.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> with a first release coming up we might want to prepare for various
> bug reports after the release. Therefore it's maybe a good idea to
> make it easier for the users to get good crash logs and send them to
> us.
>
> Integrating already existing tools for that would be probably the best
> solution, but the crash handler used depends on the DE. KDE uses
> "drkonqui" (don't know what's it in 4.0) and Gnome uses bug-buddy.
>
> Adding specific support for these isn't the real problem, its more
> about doing it The Right Way. So that are the options I see so far:
>
> * Adding two options to crashhandler "Use External Crash Handler" and
> "External Crash Handler Command Line", marking them as integrated
> options and let the CompizConfig backend fill in the correct values.
>
> * Hard coding this options in crashhandler and simply adding a(n
> integrated) choice setting.


*  Hard-coding is probably a better idea. Also, in CCSM, we need to add some
text saying that 'intergrated' options are in blue :P

I hope I can get some feedback about this from you.
>
> Regards,
> Patrick
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