On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Vincent Povirk <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not sure if this is a good idea. > > I don't think it's safe to assume that stderr will be lost if the > program was started from a .desktop file.
The majority of users are double clicking .desktop files to start their applications. Where do you see stderr going to in this case? > If default debug output slows anything down noticeably, that should > probably be fixed. Several games experience this problem, but it's difficult to use the quiet fixme approach, since they have variable information. Converting the fixme's to trace's/warn's may be a viable option. -- -Austin
