The debug menu is currently not included in stable versions.
Include the menu unconditionally, but hide it, and its associated
actions, by default in stable versions. Allow enabling the menu
using a new --show-debug-menu command-line option, in the same vein
as --show-playground.
The feature already exists in our code and produces backtraces upon a
crash into a file. The only difference is that we are now getting the
file contents and showing it in our new debug dialog, so that it works
similarly on all platform (and therefore making the debug info visible
to people, otherwise they would never report, even though the data is
generated).
The difference with gdb/lldb is that it doesn't allow backtraces at
random points (for debugging non-fatal yet bad errors). Also the API has
just 2 functions and in particular an ExcHndlInit() but no way to unload
the feature. So we don't need the debugging page in Preferences because
the switch option would not work. On Windows, the feature will be
decided at build time only.
Last point: the code is untested on Windows so far. I assume it would
work, but there is at least one point I am unsure of: will ExcHndl have
already generated the backtrace file when gimpdebug runs? If not, I will
have to let gimp die first to be able to get the backtrace.
The page is shown by default in unstable but needs --show-playground
in stable versions. There is nothing yet on that page. Also, the icon
needs improvement...
2009-01-17 Michael Natterer <mitch@gimp.org>
* all files with a GPL header and all COPYING files:
Change licence to GPLv3 (and to LGPLv3 for libgimp).
Cleaned up some copyright headers and regenerated the parsers in
the ImageMap plugin.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=27913
2007-04-17 Sven Neumann <sven@gimp.org>
Allow other applications to open images in GIMP as if they were
new images (without associating a filename). Fixes bug #423118.
* app/file/file-open.[ch]: added parameter 'as_new' to
file_open_image() and its variants.
* app/actions/data-commands.c
* app/actions/documents-commands.c
* app/actions/file-commands.c
* app/core/gimpimagefile.c
* app/dialogs/file-open-dialog.c
* app/dialogs/file-open-location-dialog.c
* app/widgets/gimptoolbox.c
* app/widgets/gimptoolbox-dnd.c: changed accordingly.
* app/app.[ch]
* app/main.c: added new command-line option '--as-new'.
* app/widgets/gimpdbusservice.[ch]
* app/widgets/dbus-service.xml: added new method "OpenAsNew" to the
D-Bus interface.
* docs/gimp.1.in: document the new command-line option.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=22264
Michael Natterer