[Development] QLog ( Work on qDebug and friends)

[kai.koehne at nokia.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext David Faure [mailto:david.faure at kdab.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 11:08 AM
> To: Koehne Kai (Nokia-MP/Berlin)
> Cc: Beck Wolfgang (Nokia-MP/Brisbane); development at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Development] QLog ( Work on qDebug and friends)
> 
> On Tuesday 21 February 2012 10:02:23 kai.koehne at nokia.com wrote:
> > I agree with that: On the desktop it's quite handy to see also
> > detailed output on stderr/the shell (which one can redirect to a file if
> needed).
> > But I also think that qLog() messages shouldn't show up by default for
> > normal users, that is, unless the category has been explicitly enabled.
> 
> True.
> 
> > So how about adding another QtMsgType called QLogMsg, that qLog()
> > uses? In contrast to qDebug/QtDebugMsg, qLog/QtLogMsg messages
> would
> > not be processed by default, unless the configuration file (or an
> > environment
> > variable) says so ...
> 
> Isn't the same information given by "a category is present in the
> QMessageLogContext"? All qLog calls are forced to get a category, right?

Right, but that would mean we can't use categories for anything except qLog. If we use categories solely for the purpose of filtering that's probably fine, but I personally also see some value in having them available as free text in the log, for all log QtMsgType's ...

Regards

Kai


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