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Bug 625274 - Crashed plugins should report an error in addition to becoming greyed out.
Crashed plugins should report an error in addition to becoming greyed out.
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 511672
Product: libpeas
Classification: Platform
Component: libpeas-gtk
git master
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: libpeas-maint
libpeas-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-07-26 04:35 UTC by Mike
Modified: 2010-07-26 11:12 UTC
See Also:
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Description Mike 2010-07-26 04:35:25 UTC 
I just had an issue with the GDP plugin lacking a dependency, and figuring out that that was the problem was a bit tricky, until I thought to run gedit in the terminal.

It would be great, if plugins that fail to load for whatever reason would explain what happened in some kind of detail. Right now, they simply gray out, making the user wonder what the heck happened. It would be better if it at least said something like, "This plugin has crashed while loading. [details]"

Users that cared could toggle the details, and ones that didn't would at least know why it grayed out.
Comment 1 Steve Frécinaux 2010-07-26 11:12:44 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 511672 ***