Useful Error Popups (was Re: XMMS Crash on Dapper)

[Chanchao]

On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 20:06 +1000, Peter Garrett wrote:

> > Unix/Linux programmers seem incapable to pop up an error message window
> > when something major goes wrong, instead they expect everyone and their
> > granny to use a terminal or enjoy a romp through log files....   Given
> > enough time, this will change.
> 
> Absolutely! Soon we will see helpful messages like this one:
> 
> http://www.boinc.ch/~thoreauputic/msdata.gif
> 
> and of course
> 
> http://www.boinc.ch/~thoreauputic/itstrue.gif

:-)

Seriously though.. Knowing the state of affairs and the place where
error message currently go, perhaps it would be nice if there was a way
in Gnome/Ubuntu to dump console output in a window.. Like by going into
the application properties in the program's icon and turn something on
that would show error messages / console output.

Cheers,
Chanchao