[MiroDev] diagnostics dialog idea

will willg at bluesock.org
Fri Aug 15 10:55:19 EDT 2008


I've been tossing around writing up a diagnostics dialog.  We'd add an 
item to the Help menu along the lines of "diagnostics" or "find 
debugging stuff here!" or something like that.  Clicking on that menu 
item brings up a dialog that has the following information on it:

* location of database on disk
* location of Miro log files on disk

* clickable url for submitting bug reports

* amount of free space on disk
* amount of space db is taking up
* amount of space icon-cache is taking up
* amount of space movies are taking up

Then...  at some point we could additionally utility functions like 
"back up database", "restore database", "flush icon-cache" "cleanup 
database", "email Dean for autograph", ...

I think the initial dialog would take an hour to put together.  It could 
save us gobs of time in explaining locations of Miro things and helping 
people help us with bug data.

Any thoughts on this?  Any ideas for a menu item name for it?

/will


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