[MiroDev] diagnostics dialog idea

[Nicholas Reville]

maybe this should just be a link in the about screen?  or an offshoot  
from the preferences panel?




On Aug 15, 2008, at 3:08 PM, will wrote:

> 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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