Re: Build Results window feature request
Re: Build Results window feature request
- Subject: Re: Build Results window feature request
- From: Laurence Harris <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:06:13 -0400
On Jun 22, 2007, at 3:24 PM, Greg Guerin wrote:
Laurence Harris wrote:
I've filed bugs against Interface Builder, Finder, iChat, Software
Updater, iDVD, Safari, DVD Player and probably others as well, and
it's
always tedious.
... I firmly believe that modern software should be smart enough
to save
us from having to reenter the same information over and over.
Captain, the sensors have detected a third-party opportunity, dead
ahead.
Should we approach and try to capture it, or veer away at warp 9?
Given that developer tools don't make money and this one would have
to interface with Apple's system, I don't see a big opportunity. I
guess anyone who thinks it's worthwhile could file a request in
Radar. I did: rdar://5288355.
Seems like a bug reporter application wouldn't really require that
much if you have access to all the pieces the way Apple would. In
fact, they could just build it into Safari if they wanted to, and
turn on access to it through some developer tool or even setting a
preference using *gasp* Terminal.
Here's what I have to do to file something in Radar:
1. Launch or bring Safari to the front.
2. Click the RadarWeb link in my bookmarks bar.
3. Safari fills in my name and password, so I click the button to log
in.
4. I click the New Problem thing at the top. (What is that, anyway?
It looks like a list header, but there's no list.)
5. Once I'm on the page I have to select a product and ideally supply
a version.
6. Fill in title and description.
7. If it's a bug report, I have to click a button and select my
current system profile.
Wouldn't it be great if we everything except (6) could be done by one
command in the relevant application? The value in this becomes even
more apparent when you consider that every little bug or enhancement
you want to file is supposed to be entered as a separate Radar entry.
It's mind-bogglingly dumb IMO to have to use a file selection dialog
four times in succession to select my system profile to file four
bugs, for example.
All this is not entirely without precedent. If someone at Apple is
using Mail, he can click rdar://5288355 to go directly to my entry
without jumping through the hoops *I* do to see it.
Hey, there's an idea, a way for developers to click a link like that
to go to our own report, with only a stop along the way to enter our
passwords. Currently it can be pretty tedious to find a bug if you've
filed a lot of them.
Larry
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