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new tool drkonqi-coredump-gui

Harald Sitter requested to merge work/collector into master

(currently has no desktop file because I'm not sure it should be in the menu - though maybe it should)

it is a GUI for coredumpctl - duh.

There are two main motivations behind this

  • provide more user friendly access to coredumps (and thus allow more crashes to be reported to the relevant authors)
  • it is the foundation for plans to aggregate crashes. right now multiple crashes result in multiple drkonqis but realistically we could just feed them all into a singular UI. coredump-gui kind of gets that started as the UI bits actually aren't coredump related at all so we can iterate from here

this also contains some rejiggering of the existing coredump code to facilitate more code sharing through a new internal static library.

architecture-wise the gui is super simple. there's a central Patient concept which "abstracts" a crashed application. Patients are managed by a PatientModel (which is really just a generic QObject model) and get fed into that model by the existing coredumpwatcher tech. the qml bits then simply view the model/patients. without coredumpd in the picture the Patients would be synthesized through other means as yet to be invented .

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