intrigeri:
> in the past of the Tails Upgrader development, the mob has
> consistently asked that the technical details of errors was hidden by
> default. I insisted that it was displayed at least for a while, since
> such errors should be reported as a bug. That's #6505 on Redmine.
>
> The initial plan was to hide it by default in 0.23, and have
> a expandable area and a "Show technical details" button or similar.
>
> I have a problem with that: it would force me to write a zenity-like
> program from scratch, with an additional option for stuff that should
> go into the expandable area (I don't do C, so I won't improve zenity).
> This feels overkill to me, and I'm sure we can find better use of
> my time.
>
> How about just hiding these technical details, and point the user to
> ~/.xsession-errors (where it already lands anyway) if they really want
> it? Given the consensus there was about hiding these details, and
> given they generally cannot be acted upon by the user anyway, this
> seems acceptable to me.
>
> Instead of displaying:
>
> "<b>Debugging information</b>\n".
> "<i>exit code</i>: %{exit_code}i\n\n".
> "<i>stdout:</i>\n%{stdout}s\n\n".
> "<i>stderr:</i>\n%{stderr}s"
>
> We could write:
>
> "For debugging information, see ~/.xsession-errors."
Fine with me. Maybe I'd say "/home/amnesia/.xession-errors" that might
appear as a filename to a few more people.
By the way, I'm not sure this file is included in WhisperBack reports,
and it should if it is the canonical place to fetch errors from Tails
Upgrader.
