I've started porting python-meh to Gtk3 and the new design. There is a mockup of the exception dialog [1]. The obvious thing is that we don't want the users clicking the Debug button, that would switch them to tty1 running pdb, from where they cannot get back and report bug. That's why the Debug button is only a small link button at the bottom of the window. We have discussed the look on the IRC and we agreed on adding a Traceback button [2], that would switch the user to tty3 with dumped traceback. Then Martin Sivak came with an idea of creating a new window with a traceback instead of using tty3, because it is better usable and can display a lot more text on the screen. [3] However, there are some issues with the main exception dialog: 1) Since there are two rows of the buttons, standard GtkDialog cannot be used for it, which means having GtkWindow, running a new GtkMainLoop for the window and using buttons' callbacks to quit it and save response ID. 2) Users can still easily get confused and lost after clicking the Debug button which looks more like a link to the debugging guidelines somewhere on the web than like a button that will switch you to the tty1 and run pdb. 3) Since python-meh is expected to be still used also in Firstboot, its labels shouldn't refer to the installation. To address 1) and 2) I've added a debug option to the configuration class (that is instantiated and passed to python-meh when registering the handler) and the code diplaying the Debug and Traceback buttons only when the debug option is set to True. [4][5] This way, we can use standard buttons placed in a more natural layout (of the GtkDialog). Since we already have such an option in Anaconda, we can easily pass it to python-meh and do not show buttons users are not expected to click. Note that the "Show traceback" button is intentionally placed out of the action area row because it doesn't close the dialog. Is that acceptable? I believe it's easy for us to add a debug=1 option when testing changes. As always, comments are welcome. [1] http://beefybeliever.wordpress.com/#jp-carousel-143 [2] http://vpodzime.fedorapeople.org/python-meh_mockup.png [3] http://vpodzime.fedorapeople.org/python-meh_show-traceback.png [4] http://vpodzime.fedorapeople.org/python-meh_non-debug.png [5] http://vpodzime.fedorapeople.org/python-meh_debug.png -- Vratislav Podzimek Anaconda Rider | Red Hat, Inc. | Brno - Czech Republic _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
