Am 12. Sep, 2003 schw=E4tzte Bill Nash so:
> As desktop environments for Linux evolve, some of this same blindness is
> creeping in through poor design, when it really shouldn't. Even subtle
> things like broken desktop icons or errors that go nowhere, we, as a user
> group, should be spotting these when our newer users run across them and
> passing them back up the chain. I mention newer users because some of
> simply won't notice some of these quirks, and users transitioning from
> Windows or Mac expect to see *some* result when they try something.
Yeah, I don't use the popup mini-command line to start programs because it
just silently fails, which sucks rocks. Well that and I always have several
xterms open :).
If GNOME and Python apps didn't spit so much crap out I would suggest it
popup a window with a scrollbar that shows at least STDERR for commands
launched via the mini-command line launcher.
Maybe we should have that and smack GNOME and Python developers for not
having well-behaved error handling...
> Perhaps it's time to start looking at changes to things like syslog and
> raising its output into desktop user space.
~/.xsession-errors :)
Not well used, though.
I think GNOME and KDE have similar files.
Maybe what we need is a program that monitors such things, so people can
have their own personal event viewer. We could even hook up something like
logcheck to popup warnings. The popup has to be very easy to disable, thoug=
h
:).
ciao,
der.hans
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