[Bug 585057] Re: Optionally show user a complete list of failures rather than individually

[Marcus Tomlinson]

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** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

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Title:
  Optionally show user a complete list of failures rather than
  individually

Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: apport

  This is an enhancement request.

  Currently when there are multiple failures to report, the Gnome applet
  shows me one error at a time.  I can't go back and forth in the list,
  my options are 'submit' or not.  What I think might be better is if
  there are more than 2 failures, to display a window with all the
  failures listed.  Allow the user to select failures to "ignore", ones
  to "submit" and ones to "merge" (or something along those lines).

  Ideally the window will also let the user do a little big of digging
  if they choose, for example looking at a snippet of the log showing
  the failure (in cases where apport knows this).  But just having a
  windows that lists ALL the failures would be a big start.

  Example:  I recently upgraded Hardy to Lucid.  During the upgrade
  there were about 30 failures.

  On first boot, I had the "crash detected" icon, which I clicked.   I
  was presented with a failure dialog, telling me I could submit the
  report or not.  After submitting the first, a second window popped up
  with a different failure.  And so on and so forth.

  By about the 14th failure I figured I should do a little digging on
  the command-line to see what happened and found the other 20 failures.
  This resulted in 12 bug reports that were actually all related to the
  first one, but it wasn't clear until I looked at the logs and saw them
  all listed at one time.  Seeing them all at once would have made it
  pretty clear they were all Python-related.

  Thanks!

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