[Portland] Desktop-aware graphical error handler

[Bastian, Waldo]

Yes, I think that's within scope. I'm not sure I understand what
functionality it should provide (if any) beyond something like
"xdg-dialog" (which doesn't exist yet).

Cheers,
Waldo
 
Intel Corporation - Channel Platform Solutions Group - Hillsboro, Oregon

>-----Original Message-----
>From: portland-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org [mailto:portland-
>bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Josef Spillner
>Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 11:56 AM
>To: portland at lists.freedesktop.org
>Subject: [Portland] Desktop-aware graphical error handler
>
>Hello,
>
>while packaging some software I came across several situations where a
>script
>fails or a graphical application crashes without any visual
notification to
>the user.
>My way of handling this was to write a generic 'error' script which
similar
>to
>tools like strace takes the entire command as its options and runs it.
>Whenever the exit stats != 0, the error messages are shown to the user
in
>kdialog, xmessage or whatever is installed, and depending on what
>environment
>the user is in.
>
>I'm not sure distributors will like this approach but for me it seems
to be
>helpful to have such an error handler installed by default.
>Is this in scope for Portland?
>
>Josef
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