[MiroDev] diagnostics dialog idea

[Ben Dean-Kawamura]

I love this idea.  It's worth it alone in the time saved linking to
GoodBugReports and telling them to find their log files there.

One additional feature that would be nice is opening the log file in
an editor.  I think we should be able to use the same open_file method
that we use to open directories.  If not, we can have a link to open
the containing folder.

Maybe some more stats could be number of items and feeds in the database?

I like diagnostics for a name, but I'm open to others.

Ben

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 10:55 AM, will <willg at bluesock.org> wrote:
> 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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