Re: Features for EbQT

Quoting [email protected]:

> I have some things which might be useful to implement for the EbQT client:
> - Remembering window size and screen position when exiting and restoring it
>   on startup.
> - Ability to change the order of users and groups. I have a lot of them and I
>   would like to be able to sort them.

  - Automatic Sign In to All
  - Automatic (Re)start Backend perhaps - so we only have to start ebqt.
  - Server error logging and crash monitoring in the backend.

  I could play around with some perl as a proof of concept if you like.

  My idea for the latter two is that a wrapper perl script would execute the
backend under GDB, and watch for problems, along with this, it would have a log
of the session from the backend's STDOUT/STDERR channels.  When the program
crashes, it would then get a full backtrace, store that in a logfile and restart
the server.

  Some hooks in the GUI for the wrapper could be set up too so that if it
crashes, the GUI can be told to reconnect, and alert the user to the problem and
display the log with instructions on where to send it.

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