brainstorming for UDS-N - Application Developers

[Bryce Harrington]

On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 05:03:12PM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> >On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 14:31 -0700, Rick Spencer wrote:
> >> We want to empower, engage and harness application developers to
> >> develop on and for Ubuntu. These sessions cover the many elements in
> >> achieving that goal.
> >> 
> >> What's high on your list for this area?
> 
> Apologies for replying out of order, but you know what I'd *love* to see?  A
> "desktop developer" mode where every visible window had a button you could
> click on that would tell you exactly what binary owns the window, what binary
> package that is part of, what source package it comes from, *and* a button to
> download (read: bzr branch :) the source branch for it.  Maybe even a button
> to submit a bug report right there.
> 
> That way, when some bug trips my threshold of tolerance, I'd click on that
> button to download the code and *maybe* just fix the dang thing.

+1  a Developer Mode would rock