kde bug reporting assistant broken?

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 19 11:52:15 UTC 2010


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!



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