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DrKonqi Developer Notifications

Posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Sep 07, 2023

For a while now DrKonqi has a special developer notification system when used in combination with coredumpd. I just realized I never told anyone about it though.

It’s terribly simple: When used with coredumpd, parts of DrKonqi implicitly look at all crashes that pertain to your current user. Because of that it can also notify on all crashes, not just the KDE-related ones. Obviously it can’t report bugs or anything but sometimes, as a developer, it’s nice to know when things explode.

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