Bug 250258

Summary: Wrong naming of item "Shell"
Product: [Applications] kdebugdialog Reporter: Lukas Sommer <sommerluk>
Component: generalAssignee: Laurent Montel <montel>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
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Description Lukas Sommer 2010-09-05 12:00:18 UTC 
Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.3.5) 
OS:                Linux

When calling "kdebugdialog --full", then a window is displayed that gives for each message type the options “File”, “Message Box”, “Shell” and “Syslog”.

The problem is that “Shell” is a bad description. This choice doesn't really causes the messages to be printed to the Shell. Instead, it means: "Use the Qt message handler to print the information." If the Qt message handler is unchanged by the program author, than everything is fine. However, if the program author has changed the Qt message handler by using qInstallMsgHandler() than kDebug() just calls this modified message handler (who writes for example to a special log file...)

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
The item "Shell" should be renamed to something like "Unchanged (likely Shell)".
Comment 1 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-11-06 15:04:21 UTC 
Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version? I am setting the status to NEEDSINFO pending your response, please change the Status back to REPORTED when you respond.

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!
Comment 2 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-11-17 04:59:20 UTC 
Dear Bug Submitter,

This is a reminder that this bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version? This bug will be moved back to REPORTED Status for manual review later, which may take a while. If you are able to, please lend us a hand.

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!
Comment 3 Justin Zobel 2022-12-15 05:49:09 UTC 
Thank you for reporting this issue in KDE software. As it has been a while since this issue was reported, can we please ask you to see if you can reproduce the issue with a recent software version?

If you can reproduce the issue, please change the status to "REPORTED" when replying. Thank you!
Comment 4 Lukas Sommer 2022-12-15 09:01:45 UTC 
Nowadays, the command is “kdebugdialog5 --fullmode”, but the confusing string names are still the same as originally reported.