[crossfire] [Crossfire-cvs] CVS commit: client

[Mark Wedel]

tchize wrote:
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> I do not agree on this change, those informations are not so verbose
> and have no reason to make users afraid of as they are not visible by
> default. Normal users don't start game in console and those starting
> in console want basic messages about what is happening. Moreover, this
> is pretty usefull to ask on irc a user to dump us content of help -
> bugreport when trying to support him. It's easier to ask player to go
> to a menu entry then ask him to go in consle mode, and it works
> crossplatform

  Given (IIRC) that the client does not currently register itself with gnome of 
KDE, I'd expect most people to actually run from the command line.

  Any my experience is that very few programs will dump out all that information 
by default.  And one problem in doing so is that it can be harder to see real 
error messages.

  Probably the correct solution is to add a -V or --version option to the 
clients which dump out that information - that is what most all other 
applications do.  It hides the information people don't need by default, but 
still provides a way to get that information in case of bug reports, etc.


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> Crossfire CVS repository messages. a écrit :
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>> Module Name: client Committed By: mwedel Date: Sun Jul 2 03:19:43
>> UTC 2006
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>> Modified Files: client: ChangeLog client/common: misc.c
>>
>> Log Message: common/misc.c: Make default log level 2 when not in
>> debug mode. Normal users probably don't want all the INFO log
>> messages, and it never makes a good impression about
>> stability/quality if a program spews out lots of errors or other
>> messages. MSW 2006-07-01
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>>
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