[Scummvm-devel] Improved reporting of unknown MD5s / new game variants

Pierre-Yves GĂ©rardy pygy79 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 28 17:30:54 CEST 2010


On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 14:00, Max Horn <max at quendi.de> wrote:

>
> A very simple first improvement would be to copy the relevant data to the
> clipboard and show a message indicating that: "An unknown game variant was
> detected. Relevant info was copied to the clipboard. Please report it to the
> ScummVM team by doing XYZ." (this text is obviously just meant to convey the
> idea, not to be used ;).
>

 This would erase whatever is in the clipboard, which could be an unpleasant
surprise, sometimes (rarely, I concede, but causing data loss is evil IMO).


> But even tighter integration is achievable with relatively little effort, I
> think: We could offer a "Report by email" button in the GUI dialog, which
> would open up the user's default email client with a precomposed email with
> right address, subject and pre-filled body. At least


What about opening a web page with a pre-filled form (pass the hash through
the URL)? There are system APIs for this on both Windows and OS X, and most
probably in Linux too (although it may be window manger dependent). On
Windows, the default browser is used.

You could use a negative captcha strategy[1] to fend spam...

Cheers,
-- Pierre-Yves

1. http://damienkatz.net/2007/01/negative_captch.html
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