[Desktop13.04-Topic] Integrate a Paper Cuts toolbelt into ubuntu-dev-tools

[Brendan Donegan]

On 25/10/12 14:00, Chris Wilson wrote:
>
>     Presumably the user already has the application in question open,
>     so it
>     would be simpler to allow them to point to an open window and have the
>     reporting program work out the package from that.
>
>
> Now that does sound like a good idea. Do you if there's anything in 
> GTK that can extract meta data from a window simply by clicking on it, 
> or anything along those lines?
To be a bit more helpful, there is the command 'xprop _NET_WM_PID' which 
gets the PID of the window you click on and then you can 'cat 
/proc/$PID/stat' and it has the name of the package in the output.
>
>     With that in mind, couldn't this be implemented as a command-line
>     option
>     to ubuntu-bug to cause it to send a reduced set of information and do
>     the paper-cut-specific stuff, plus if necessary an additional
>     graphical
>     utility to deal with application selection?  It could then live in
>     apport rather than needing a new package, and we won't need to dilute
>     the message about using ubuntu-bug to report bugs.
>
>
> "ubuntu-bug --papercut rhythmbox" would work well for our needs. We 
> could bundle the GUI app into another package, perhaps 
> ubuntu-dev-tools-extra. How does that sound?
>
> Chris
>
>

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