2012-07-18, 19:18
Wow, that is great man! I just saw your post!
I love the custom dialog idea, and I especially was impressed to see the userflow functionality happen.
But seeing the nodename and some of the path showing personal info (like user machine-name, and username) made me wonder if they are useful for debugging an xbmc addon, and some user might opt not to due to this. I mean no need for these info (unlike, OS, XBMC info, versions, timestamps). Maybe if there is a way to disable them from the API? I know I can remove them by myself, but this will require me to do that for each update and have my modified buggalo shipped with every addon. So having and API to enable/disable some of the info would be great.
I know I am pushing it a little bit, but how hard is it to allow the option to send an email instead of posting to a URL. Some developers might not have a website (or able to create a server-side logging on the web), but they do have an email. Allowing them to specify the title (so they can name it [XBMC-ADDON-BUG]) and they make a filter in their inbox to have a folder for them, can make it easy to track errors. It will also allow them to get the errors instantly on their smartphones, or when checking email daily.
But so far I think it is fantastic, and that any addon should use it. I even think it should be built in by xbmc, and I do mean it.
I love the custom dialog idea, and I especially was impressed to see the userflow functionality happen.
But seeing the nodename and some of the path showing personal info (like user machine-name, and username) made me wonder if they are useful for debugging an xbmc addon, and some user might opt not to due to this. I mean no need for these info (unlike, OS, XBMC info, versions, timestamps). Maybe if there is a way to disable them from the API? I know I can remove them by myself, but this will require me to do that for each update and have my modified buggalo shipped with every addon. So having and API to enable/disable some of the info would be great.
I know I am pushing it a little bit, but how hard is it to allow the option to send an email instead of posting to a URL. Some developers might not have a website (or able to create a server-side logging on the web), but they do have an email. Allowing them to specify the title (so they can name it [XBMC-ADDON-BUG]) and they make a filter in their inbox to have a folder for them, can make it easy to track errors. It will also allow them to get the errors instantly on their smartphones, or when checking email daily.
But so far I think it is fantastic, and that any addon should use it. I even think it should be built in by xbmc, and I do mean it.
