Debug

[Steven Vollom]

On Friday 17 July 2009 12:29:26 pm Nils Kassube wrote:
> Steven Vollom wrote:
> > Perhaps you won't believe it, but I usually type fairly accurately.
>
> Well, if you say it, I have no reason not to believe it.
>
> > Few spelling errors.  But when I am fatigued, I make lots of typos
> > and I believe that is what happened here.  Because it is not common,
> > I did not notice it.
>
> Yeah, same here - if it is too late in the evening there are more typos.
>
> > When I get a kate window with debugging data, am I able to send that
> > to the people who fix these things, or am I supposed to know how to
> > use the kate data to debug the problem myself.  For me, it is not
> > intuitive.
>
> Sorry, I can't answer that question without seeing the debugging data.
> And I'm not familiar with debugging applications like kate unless there
> is a crash. If there _is_ a crash, a window should open with the option
> to submit a bug report. If you click on "details" there, it will tell
> you if the debugging information might be useful. Well, at least it
> worked this way when I stumbled across a dragon player crash.

Your last paragraph is exactly what I am referring to.  Now that I have dbg 
installed for kde, when I click on Details a lot of information shows up.  It 
doesn't tell you how to use the information it provides, apparently you have 
to know that before you install the app.  But the only way I have been able to 
copy the data on the details window is to expand to full screen, take a png 
and open Gimp and reduce it to about 20% of its size to get a jpg small enough 
to be acceptable to the moderators.  It gets close to 40kb then and still can 
be read.

It seems there must be an easier way; I just don't know it yet or how to find 
it.

Steven
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> Nils