[Fwd: Apport]

[Kevin Kofler]

Will Woods <wwoods <at> redhat.com> writes:
> I couldn't find details on a crash-report format specific to KDE but if
> someone wants to point me at some existing work in this area I'd
> appreciate it.

KDE has something called KCrash. KCrash intercepts crashes in KDE applications 
and brings up a crash window with 2 tabs. The first tab is just the 
usually "Sorry, I have crashed" boilerplate, the second tab is for backtraces: 
switching to that second tab causes KCrash to invoke GDB and attach it to the 
executable, obtaining a backtrace which is displayed in a text box on that tab; 
there are 2 buttons on the tab: one to copy the backtrace to the clipboard, one 
to save it to a file. And of course the dialog has a Close button. There is no 
special format for crash reports, it's just a GDB backtrace. If GDB is not 
installed, KCrash just displays an error that no backtrace could be obtained 
because GDB is not installed.

        Kevin Kofler