Timeline for Do we need a tool to help users providing information on their system?
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| Jan 10, 2013 at 4:17 | comment | added | Nathan Osman |
@gertvdijk: Well then perhaps the tool should let the user pick the commands to run then. That way when the user runs into the problem and asks the question, we just tell them to use our tool to get the output of xxx and yyy commands. I'm just thinking out loud here.
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| Jan 10, 2013 at 3:30 | comment | added | gertvdijk |
@GeorgeEdison The name is one thing, but I'm very much against making the problem the centre of it all. It's very hard to limit the output of the tool to the useful set of things. "Wireless connectivity issue"... well that's lshw, lspci, rfkill, iwlist, NetworkManager, logs, firmware file listing, ... (endless)
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| Jan 10, 2013 at 2:34 | history | edited | Nathan Osman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 10, 2013 at 1:22 | comment | added | Nathan Osman | @Tachyons: I've switched back to Qt4 which is included with both Ubuntu and Kubuntu. We should be good now. | |
| Jan 9, 2013 at 10:37 | comment | added | Tachyons | @George Edison: Nothing wrong, but1) qt5 is not available in default repostory of 12.10 and older 2)kde apps will pull lot of kde dependancies,It will affect sisze of the app, Personally I prefer Gtk ui for ubuntu and Qt ui for kubuntu | |
| Jan 9, 2013 at 3:46 | comment | added | Nathan Osman | @gertvdijk: The name is a bit misleading - the tool is only designed to gather information. It doesn't fix anything. | |
| Jan 9, 2013 at 3:43 | comment | added | Nathan Osman | Never mind - I've switched back to Qt 4.x for now since that increases the chance the user will be able to run the app without any other libraries since the Ubuntu and Kubuntu CD both include the Qt4 libs. | |
| Jan 9, 2013 at 2:23 | comment | added | Nathan Osman | @iSeth: Feel free to edit and add them to the answer :) | |
| Jan 9, 2013 at 2:23 | comment | added | Nathan Osman | @Tachyons: What's wrong with Qt5? | |
| Jan 8, 2013 at 16:47 | comment | added | Seth |
I think we should add something like lspci | grep Network and lsusb to wireless issues, because a fair amount of the questions relating to wireless is drivers issues.
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| Jan 8, 2013 at 12:58 | comment | added | Tachyons | +1 for quickly starting , -1 for QT5 | |
| Jan 8, 2013 at 9:03 | comment | added | gertvdijk | Wow, I appreciate you sharing ideas and even get started on something! However, I have my concerns about some key parts of your answer. 1) troubleshoot is what people do, 2) No fancy UI required, so Qt5 seems not a good choice for 10.04/12.04/12.10 stuff. | |
| Jan 8, 2013 at 7:01 | comment | added | Nathan Osman | Another way the community could help is by creating Debian packaging by following this guide. | |
| Jan 8, 2013 at 6:29 | history | answered | Nathan Osman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |