On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Jérôme Gardou jerome.gardou@gmail.comwrote:
... I'm not sure that we want to reproduce windows XP behaviour here (understand "Your application encountered an unexpected error. What do you want to do : send report/do not send) which annoys most people, and is not that useful. Most wine users, when their app crashes, open a bug report and attach the console log. If the log contains information got from ReportFault, developers will gain some time, and have the preceding context of the call.
Just my 2 cents :-)
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