kde bug reporting assistant broken?
Anne Wilson
cannewilson at googlemail.com
Fri Mar 19 14:18:16 UTC 2010
On Friday 19 March 2010 12:10:14 Thomas Janssen wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thomas Janssen wrote:
> >> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> >>> OK, second time I tried to report a bug. It's not me.
> >>>
> >>> After putting a sentence explaining what I was doing before the crash,
> >>> I get a dialog asking if I can tell some more. I choose no. Then my
> >>> only choice is quit of save the information - not send it in. And, if
> >>> I pick save, and then I see it means save to a file, and I cancel, the
> >>> whole thing just quits. This is exactly what happened the last time.
> >>> Really frustrating that I spent all the effort to download debuginfo,
> >>> check dups, and it was a complete waste of time.
> >>
> >> Means the information given wasn't enough for a good bugreport. The
> >> first sentence is kinda a header telling the general problem. The
> >> second (you said no) is where to give more information/telling what
> >> you did. Without that information (tell some more) it's not a useful
> >> bugreport. The behavior changed lately. Sending old style bugreports,
> >> without further information isn't possible any more AFAIK.
> >
> > It should warn the user that if they say 'no, they can't give more info'
> > that it will close without sending the report!
>
> Agreed.
Last time I saw it, it actually said if the bug report itself wasn't useful,
and offered to download debug packages to improve matters. That was only a
couple of days ago. Are you saying this isn't so any more?
Anne
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