Re: TODO list (REPOST)

[Fernando Nasser <fnasser at cygnus dot com>]

Grant Edwards wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 11:15:40PM -0700, Mo DeJong wrote:
> 
> > With all this talk of "fixing" insight, I thought I
> > would bring up the old name issue again. The #1
> > question people have when starting out with
> > insight is "how do I run it?". People automatically
> > assume that the name of the executable is insight.
> >
> > Lets just change the name of the executable to
> > insight, it is the right thing to do. This
> > also gets around the problem of typing % gdb
> > and getting insight when you expected to get
> > the cmd line gdb from the distro.
> 
> My preference would be for it to come up in command-line mode
> if invoked as *gdb, and GUI mode if invoked as *insight.
> 

Yes, that is the idea.  A modification in Mo's patch that will default to -w
if the name contains "insight" and to -nw otherwise would do that.

However....

We would have to make sure proper credits are made to GDB, the GNU project, FSF etc.
Insight is just a GUI, it does nothing without gdb, which was a program originally 
written by Richard Stallman and made public under the GPL.  We have no right to
rename it and take away the credits.

So, I propose we make very visible in the GUI the words "GNU gdb", add to the splash
screen (same as About) which would be on by default the proper credits and disclaimers
(as printed when gdb starts).  After we do this we can start the gdb GUI by typing
"insight" with no guilty. 

This brings a question: Where do I add the "GNU gdb version N.NN..."? 

Somewhere in the Source Window, I believe.  Do I make it the window title?

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