brainstorming for UDS-N - Application Developers

[Benjamin Drung]

Am Freitag, den 01.10.2010, 17:39 -0400 schrieb Barry Warsaw:
> 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. :)

That's a great idea. I remember the gui tool for killing an application.
You start this gui kill tool, you get a cross line, and you click on the
window that should be killed. This could be applied to getting the
source of a package.

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Maintainer (www.debian.org)
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