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[Lucas Baudin <xapantu@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I don't have the time to write a long mail atm, but in fact, you must 
call g_debug (or debug() in vala), g_warning, g_critical, etc... to log 
any informations using the Granite logger. It will just replace the 
default glib formatter, but you must use the same functions.

Lucas

On 08/14/2011 08:26 AM, Avi Romanoff wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am in the process of giving Switchboard as much Granite love as I 
> can before the imminent 1.0 launch. I believe the way logging works in 
> Granite right now is pretty broken.
>
> First off, the only logging function Logger actually provides is 
> notification(), which does not even appear to print any message in my 
> test. Obviously it should work, and I'll file a bug, but what about 
> other log levels? Surely it would make just as much sense to have 
> convenience functions for critical/fatal and debugging errors as well?
>
> Additionally it seems to me that Logger being something of a singleton 
> makes it massively annoying to log errors in different parts of an 
> application, where access to the Logger object might not be available. 
> Could/should the logging system be re-factored to accommodate this, or 
> am I missing something?
>
> Avi