brainstorming for UDS-N - Application Developers

[Bryce Harrington]

On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 01:30:20AM +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> 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.

xkill and its ilk.

Of course, often times with gui bugs, the actual package is not the
thing presenting the gui but an underlying library component.  Still,
it'd be a better guess than filing a bug with no package at all.

Of course, the cynical side of me says we've got so many bug reports do
we really want to make it any easier for people to file more?  ;-)

Bryce