Re: UI changes in reporting of exceptions

Hi all,

Here are my comments about Error Dialog presented in Jindra's UI 
specification :

- title is "UI Gestures Collector"
.... user will see this dialog after she push button "Report Problem" .. 
I think it would be much better to connect this with this action

- account name
... we should probably ask for an email instead, but I agree with asking 
for reporter's contact, anyway this is not mandatory (in some cases)

- component/subcomponent
... in this case don't ask user for such "details", this information 
could be get from the stack trace. Also you mentioned that it will 
contains all c/s, how do you wan to do that ?

- summary
.... don't have strong opinion - much better to unify it - so do it 
automatically for example : NullPointerException from org.netbeans..... 
, but user should have an opportunity to change it

- Describe what you were doing when the exception occurred
... not mandatory, much better to ask for additional informations not 
exactly steps before (like:I lost the data, editor was closed, I am no 
more able to create project .....) .. BTW: for now user sends UI 
gestures with exception, doesn't he ?

All together I think this will help us to get more feedback, and 
probably focus on the hottest problems. What I still miss in connection 
with both projects is : what do you plan to do with gathered data? how 
do you want to process them ?
If we already have answers for these questions, we could much better fit 
the dialog into the appropriate UI ;)

Thanks,
*Marian

Jindrich Sedek wrote:
> Cau,
> 
> I'm comming with some UI changes in UI Gesture Collector at the 
> situation when an exception rises.
> I've updated  specification:
> http://www.netbeans.org/source/browse/*checkout*/logger/uihandler/src/org/netbeans/modules/uihandler/api/doc-files/ui.html 
> 
> 
> We are trying to join two similar projects: Gesture Collector and Report 
> exception project
> http://wiki.netbeans.org/wiki/view/ReportExceptionProject
> 
> I'm looking forward to your comments.
> 
> Thanks
> Jindra