Re: [gui-dev] Wishlist item: Console tab

Hi Tero,

I believe that the Console Tab is being worked on by Ryan Keppel.  I'm 
not sure of his current progress on it.  You may want to contact him at 
rkeppel -at- usa -dot- net.

The easiest way for us to handle patches is to send them to 
[email protected].  As far as the implementation goes... Yes, the 
tab would be a normal tab like 'connections', 'monitor', etc... It 
would not be visible by default.  No shipping version of LimeWire 
contains log4j (we stub out the logger using common's logging's 
NoOpLog).  It might be better to implement the logging as a different 
commons logging logger, offering its own set of options.  However, 
using log4j might be best in the case where log4j _is_ present.

For the UI, the two most important things are the ability to pick which 
loggers are currently logging & the threshold they're logging at (both 
changeable at runtime).

Thanks,
  Sam


On Jun 8, 2005, at 11:14 AM, Tero Parviainen wrote:

> 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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