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need to make button:

that open alredy fulled form (version kde, ... etc)
with attached log (and maybe application config)
and with iframe for searching (to not make duplicate problem)

and button for 1-click install *-debug package

A rework of DrKonqi with bugzilla integration is currently a work in progress, and will hopefully be part of trunk. It will not support installing debug packages automatically due to distribution and platform differences

bcooksley wrote:A rework of DrKonqi with bugzilla integration is currently a work in progress, and will hopefully be part of trunk. It will not support installing debug packages automatically due to distribution and platform differences

why? If i can install *-debug from my repositories, why DrKonqi can't?

Because DrKonqi works on several different platforms, and has no way to tell whether it's using Ubuntu (apt-get), Mandriva (urpmi), Gentoo (emerge), Windows (?!?) or Mac OS (!?!).

well in my opinion: regular home user uses most popular distributions > most popular distros/os uses most popular packet managers > there are very limited number of popular packet managers;
Only developers, advanced users uses unpopular/new etc packet managers > in most cases they wouldn't need automatic reporting as they are capable to do it themselves

Since it is very low number of possible packet managers, DrKonqi could easily check if there is eg /usr/bin/zypper etc file and by so detect the preferred installer.

I don't think it could be more than 100lines of code to implement this

Or I' am wrong?

Unfortunately you are wrong, since it would require DrKonqi to also know the names of the packages in question. Being able to talk to the Package Manager is not a problem thanks to PackageKit.

bcooksley wrote:Unfortunately you are wrong, since it would require DrKonqi to also know the names of the packages in question. Being able to talk to the Package Manager is not a problem thanks to PackageKit.

Well, I'm not an expert of packageKit, but something like this wouldn't work?
[php]
$st = false;

if (is_file (/usr/bin/apt-get)) {
$st = "apt-get install $program-debug";
} elseif (is_file (/usr/bin/zypper)) {
$st = "zypper in $program-debug";
} elseif (is_file (/usr/bin/urpmi)) {
$st = "urpmi get $program-debug";
}

if (!$st)
$error = " No known package manager found";
else {
if (exec($st))
$success = "Debug package installed"
else
$error = "Error occurred while installing debug package";
}

[/php]

Since any packet manager developers teem could submit lines
elseif (is_file ()){ $st = ""; } for their own apps don't see any problem

In example hp-lip (HP drivers) is able to detect OS and install all required dependencies by it own, so I assume it is possible to do it


Good day

bcooksley wrote:Unfortunately you are wrong, since it would require DrKonqi to also know the names of the packages in question. Being able to talk to the Package Manager is not a problem thanks to PackageKit.

most package manager provides means to get from the executable-name to the package-name. And then simple heuristics (like adding "-debug" to the name) should be sufficient to get the debug-package.

First of all: DrKonqi2 is currently on trunk and will be released with KDE4.3
Second point: what if "Kopete" crashes on Ubuntu ? we need to install "kdenetwork-dbg" and may be "kdelibs5-dbg" too.
About cross-distro debug package installing, some people pointed me that a similar script exists to do that in some distributions. Anyways we are on feature freeze now. We can study it for KDE4.4
BTW: there is a related project about distributed-backtrace-generation when the user won't need debug symbols at all and the incomplete backtrace is sent to a server where it is "expanded" to get a complete backtrace (currently Ubuntu has something similar). For more information look at: http://www.nabble.com/GSoC-project%3A-C ... 27631.html

I think as long as the package-manager allows searching by "provides" this should be possible with packagekit. The problem is what to do if packagekit crashes, which happens a lot with me.

Second point: what if "Kopete" crashes on Ubuntu ? we need to install "kdenetwork-dbg" and may be "kdelibs5-dbg" too.

That should be handled by the kopete debug package's dependencies. If not that is the distro's fault.

bcooksley wrote:A rework of DrKonqi with bugzilla integration is currently a work in progress, and will hopefully be part of trunk. It will not support installing debug packages automatically due to distribution and platform differences

Don't most major Linux distros have support for PackageKit now? Or this because of KDEs intended support for Windows?

I do not see much of a problem in this...

If there is support for PackageKit or some other supported package management backend then show packages, else just show a warning ("please install debug packages...").

It is not a very different situation from what now happens with KDE4 on windows, as there is no version of KWin / Plasma.

Yeah DrKonqi2 already does guess your distro and put it in the report. But I don't know about any of that.

I just want to add: alex, DrKonqi2 is like a surprise birthday party with lots of presents. It's awesome. You are totally going to love crashing from now on [v4.3+].

The "Install Debug Symbols" option was added for KDE4.4; now the distributions should write the script implementation to do so; we already provide the interface.

Can this idea be marked as DONE ?

Regards

IMHO it is done