[MiroDev] diagnostics dialog idea

[will]

I whipped it together and checked it in.  It's pretty basic--only has 
locations and the total free space.  For the locations of things, it 
allows you to "open them".

Super handy for finding log files, movies directory, icon-cache, ...

It's pretty loosely structured to make adding additional items easy.

And...  it'd allow plugins/platforms/etc to add additional items 
trivially, too.

/will


Ben Dean-Kawamura wrote:
> 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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