On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Jérôme Gardou <jerome.gardou@gmail.com> wrote:
Erich Hoover a écrit :
I know quite a few people (my converts) that run applications (mostly games) where they launch the application from an icon and there is no console.  They've complained to me every once in a while that they would much prefer a dialog informed them when their application crashes.  Personally, I think that fatal errors (including things like "a DLL could not be found") should launch a dialog if a terminal is not available (if "TERM" is not set).

Erich Hoover
ehoover@mines.edu <mailto:ehoover@mines.edu>

Why not writing directly debug output in a file instead of redirecting it to stderr. After all, Xorg has its own log, why not /tmp/wine.0.log ?

And ReportFault would be "Your application crashed because of unexpected behaviour. Please report a bug to http://bugs.winehq.org. Don't forget to attach /tmp/wine.0.log. Please be kind and search for existing bug before reporting."

For the people I know that sounds like it would work.  Provided that that message appeared as a dialog (if run without a terminal) and they wouldn't need to do anything special to activate the feature then I think that would help a lot for the non-terminal-savvy folks.

Erich Hoover
ehoover@mines.edu