brainstorming for UDS-N - Application Developers

Barry Warsaw barry at canonical.com
Fri Oct 1 22:39:19 BST 2010


On Oct 01, 2010, at 05:27 PM, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote:

>On 01/10/2010 17:03, Barry Warsaw wrote:
>> 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.
>
>Something like that wouldn't take long at all to script up, why not
>just go ahead and do it :)

I'm fairly certain I could write most of the backend code for that, but I
personally have no idea how to hook it into the ui.  And please don't ask me
to design the ui. :)

-Barry
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