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by andy on Saturday 19/Apr/2008, @04:14

What always concerns me is that when you are starting KDE applications from the console you are getting x warnings outputted while it runs. Who keeps track of them and tries to resolve these issues?

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Re: Application logs
by Philip Rodrigues on Saturday 19/Apr/2008, @20:53

Those are debug messages - they tell you what the app is doing so you can track down problems if they occur. Since the most common use case for kde apps is to start them from the k menu or the run command dialog, output on the command line isn't really a big issue.

In fact, most distributions turn off this debug output throughout kde (there's a compile-time option that turns kDebug() into a no-op). But if you dislike them, and they're not already turned off, you can use kdebugdialog to control the output of messages - take a look in the user guide on docs.kde.org.

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Re: Application logs
by andy on Sunday 20/Apr/2008, @08:41

I think these problems need to be fixed, not disactivated.

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Re: Application logs
by Philip Rodrigues on Monday 21/Apr/2008, @22:08

If you mean genuine X errors generated by the X server, they're probably occurring at the Qt level, rather than KDE - you could try reporting them to Trolltech I guess, although I don't see much point unless you actually see a problem with the *functionality* of the application you're running.

If on the other hand you mean the KDE debug output, then it's *debug* output, for solving problems when they occur, so in once sense it can print what it likes.

I would make one proviso though - we often tell people in #kde to run kbuildsycoca, which prints out a lot of warnings, and at least one error, all of which are entirely harmless as far as I know. It would be cool to not have these messages around generating undue concern, but it's a pretty minor point.

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