user report...@packages.debian.org usertags 614162 ui-gtk thanks Hi Éric,
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 01:44, Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> wrote: > I usually report more that one bug at a time. I may have a short list of > bugs, or I may have found something interesting in the bugs list, added > more info to that report, and now would like to proceed to report the bug I > had in mind before that. For these situations, it would be nice if the last > screen (the one with the confusing Cancel-Apply buttons and the badly > wrapped text) had a button allowing one to start a new report. > > To generalize that request, it could be a good idea to add a button (say on > the bottom left of the GTK UI, so that it’s not mixed with the > Cancel/Continue > buttons that apply to the current report) that can launch a new window (or > tab, but that’s another request I opened) at any time. > > The net benefit is that people could launch the program and do more than > one report or reply without having to launch it again. Please consider it's a *huge* change in reportbug way of working, so don't expect anything soon. > One obvious drawback of this idea is that one crash would make you lose > more that one report. Possible workarounds: launch a new process instead > of a new window in the same process; auto-save reports in progress in $TMP; > fix the damn GTK float bug <wink>. that's a feature: it's a highly tuned AI that detects when a bug report is not worth to be sent and automatically kills the problem masking it as a floating point error :) Cheers, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org