[Scummvm-devel] consoles, warnings, errors and so forth

[Max Horn]

Am 01.06.2011 um 16:49 schrieb Willem Jan Palenstijn:

> On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 04:23:53PM +0200, Max Horn wrote:
>> Am 01.06.2011 um 15:11 schrieb A. Milburn:
>>> On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 02:42:50PM +0200, Max Horn wrote:
>>>> Approach b) seems better to me, at least on desktop machines. Show something like this:
>>>> "While adding new games, ScummVM noticed some file that look like currently unknown game variants
>>>> (King's Quest 4, Monkey Island and 5 more).
>>>> Please report them to the ScummVM team, by sending us your log file found at
>>>>  C:\Path\To\LogFile.txt
>>> 
>>> I would personally prefer the option to have both, at least when not
>>> mass-adding,
>> 
>> Well, even for a single game, the information we currently printf can be 10
>> lines or more, with MD5s for multiple files. Hrm.
>> 
>>> but I can't say I mind too much - but you'd presumably want the
>>> plain md5 view for non-mass-add so that people could take photographs or
>>> write down things from their non-desktop devices?
>> 
>> The "photograph screen of non-desktop devices" is a good point, hadn't
>> thought of that. Still I don't think the average user will appreciate seeing
>> all this MD5 information, even for a single game... (but maybe I am totally
>> mistaken here). Maybe we can not show it by default, but have a "show
>> details" button that opens another dialog with more information, maybe even
>> scrollable? Does that sounds acceptable, or is it now too much of a
>> "compromise trying to please everybody" solution?
> 
> It's a bit of a cop-out, but for non-desktop users we could also just ask them
> to try adding the same undetected game on a desktop machine and report the MD5
> info from there.  In many cases I can imagine that that's probably more
> convenient for everyone.

Excellent point, fully agreed.

I wish somebody was working on all this, or at least taking notes in a wiki page, collecting all the good (and bad) ideas and important points ;).

Cheers,
Max