[24427] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 9.2.20: evolution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Oct 2 01:33:54 2003
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: "Richard J. Barbalace" <rjbarbal@mit.edu>
Cc: bugs@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200310020230.h922UkXX018994@starbase.mit.edu>
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Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 01:33:52 -0400
Essentially all GNOME programs spew. It's an unfortunate fact of life;
they all occasionally dump meaningless crud to stdout and stderr. If we
didn't suppress the output of gnome-panel and gnome-terminal, they would
busily spew to users' consoles. If you launch Evolution from the panel,
you won't see its spew, because it gets lost in the same void we send
gnome-panel's spew to.
We could attempt to fix every instance of poorly-handled errors or
accidentally-left-in debugging statements, but that wouldn't be a very
fruitful use of our time. We could make a front-end script to evolution
which dumps all the output from the real binary to /dev/null, but that
doesn't seem like a great local modification.
(KDE programs spew even more, incidentally. Pages and pages.)
