Bug 30724

Summary:	remove log viewer status icon
Product:	plymouth	Reporter:	william.jon.mccann
Component:	general	Assignee:	Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description william.jon.mccann 2010-10-09 02:17:17 UTC

We should remove the log viewer status icon for a few reasons.

 * Boot errors are not user serviceable
 * Presence of boot messages doesn't really mean there was a boot error
 * We should have a more robust logging framework but this doesn't get us toward that
 * We don't want to have to support status icons in GNOME 3 
 * etc

Comment 1 Ray Strode 2010-10-11 07:40:21 UTC

Should be set:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/plymouth/commit/?id=34c6f34c6d53ec0e2dc58fabfcf412d34709605b

viewer: don't build viewer by default

The viewer is useful for seeing boot messages after boot up. It does this by showing a notification icon in the event there is a problem during boot. Notification icons aren't as en vogue as they once were, however. Ideally, we would have a more structured and semantically aware way to deal with specific boot problems. This commit turns the icon off by default. It can still be built with a --with-log-viewer 

Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30724
Reported By: William Jon McCann <william.jon.mccann@gmail.com>

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