https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=265263#c49 --- Comment #49 from Stefan Hundhammer <sh@novell.com> 2007-08-29 11:11:08 MST --- (In reply to comment #48 from Aaron Bockover)
For one, I would _never_ want to see xmessage in any shape or form.
Nobody wants that. But then, nobody ever wants bad news. But should that mean that bad news simply always gets suppressed?
If YaST segfaults, well, we have bug buddy on GNOME, etc. Maybe the GTK front end should integrate with that. If you absolutely have to show the user a cryptic error message, at least do so in a native UI - use zenity if on GNOME or XFCE, kdialog on KDE, and xmessage as a complete last resort fallback.
That would be beautifying the display of error messages and, a lot worse, maintaining a zillion error message beautifiers in all shapes of sizes. Does that really make any sense to you? I vote strictly against this. This would just be code bloat and a maintenance nightmare.
Also, all of the cryptic messages that are being debated here for showing to users should be logged in ~/.xession-errors anyway - if a user advanced enough to understand the error really cares about said error - they will probably know where to find it.
I fear you overestimate even advanced users. I have yet to receive the first bug report where a user looked in ~/.xsession-errors. All we ever get in such cases is "it doesn't start". We didn't add that "xmessage" just for the fun of it. If there was no reason for it, we'd have kept the start script simple. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.