Re: minutes ui meeting 20070321

[Sami Wagiaalla <swagiaal at redhat dot com>]

> Observers: Andrew and Sami discussed (private discussion) that the
> observers/process picker workflows need to be simplified.
Also discussed here:

  http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4163
> Was the design reviewed on the list? Not yet. Please post the ideas for
> everybody to understand.
>   
The suggestion is:

Gobalizing Observers over the entire session. This means having a global 
list of observers which watch all procs/threads in the current session, 
and allowing the user to choose which ones are on/off. Changes would 
then be a customization of the observers. This means eliminating the 
metaphor that observers are added to procs/threads of course. It also 
has some performance implications.

From the meeting:
- By selecting which processes belong in a session the user has already 
declared which processes should be observed.
- The user still has the option of filtering away unwanted observations, 
by adding a filter which specifies which executable (process?) he/she is 
interested in.

The bug has been marked as waiting for feed back. Feel free to comment, 
object, or add to it :)

Cheers,
 Sami Wagiaalla