[gui-dev] Wishlist item: Console tab

Hello,

I'm interested in implementing the Console tab feature
on your wish list. I have a few years of experience in
Java development, but that is 100% J2EE, so I've never
really done anything on the client side. I've also
never participated in an open source project. I've got
a copy of the Limewire source tree and it looks like a
good project to start with, as it seems to be
structured and documented quite well. I've also been a
user of the program for years now. This task would be
great to get me started as I'm well experienced with
log4j.

A few questions:
- Firstly, a general issue: How do you usually handle
wishlist items, should I just create a patch and post
it in JIRA, or maybe mail it to [email protected]
?
About the actual implementation:
- By "Console tab" do you mean just a normal tab like
connections, monitor etc? Should this tab be visible
by default?
- I think the most straightforward way to get to the
data would be to just implement a log4j Appender and
plug that into the log4j Logger repository. How does
this approach sound to you?
- What kind of features should the console view have
UI-wise? I'm thinking of at least having a possibility
to change the output treshold and manually clear the
log.

Thank you,

Tero Parviainen

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