GUI applications writing garbage to stdout/stderr

[Reindl Harald]

Am 16.01.2015 um 10:50 schrieb Björn Persson:
> Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> I'm with you, debugging spam needs to go away, GUI applications have
>> no business writing anything at all to the console, ever.
>
> Except when they have really serious errors.
>
> I once had an X problem that prevented Openoffice from working. It
> showed no window, output nothing, and terminated immediately with an
> exit code of zero. In other words it behaved just like the command
> "true". That's going a bit too far.
>
> (I wrote a bug report and was told that Openoffice was fixed to write
> an error message and return an error code.)

that's why a graphical application with the ability to gibe out debug 
infos if started in a terminal has to have a -v or whatever parameter 
but just shut up in a normal call

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