Re: [Ayatana-dev] Introducing Stack Inspector

[Ted Gould <ted@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2011-09-05 at 16:44 +0800, Sam Spilsbury wrote:
>  Q: What do you plan to do with this in the future
>  A: We can probably use this as a test harness for the new stacking code
> to compare what's on the server with what the stacking code thinks the
> stack is to nip any problems in the bud. Also, I think it should be
> possible to record what's going on on a user's system, so if they have a
> reproducible bug they can just send us the log and this tool can play it
> back (albeit, with no pixmaps, only puke-colored rectangles). I also
> want to make it handle stuff like damage events so you have realtime
> thumbnails though I think that's more of a distraction than a help.

Is there a way we can have the CLI tool output results the GUI tool
could read?  Would that make sense or do you need something more dynamic
to do useful debugging?  If we could do that, an apport hook could be
easily devised to capture that data.

		--Ted

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