#1108741 gnome-shell: no feedback when starting an application that crashes

Package:
gnome-shell
Source:
gnome-shell
Description:
graphical shell for the GNOME desktop
Submitter:
Julien Plissonneau Duquène
Date:
2025-07-04 11:31:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1108741#5
Date:
2025-07-04 11:28:54 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainers,

gnome-shell currently doesn't show any useful feedback when starting an
application that crashes immediately at startup (e.g. with a SIGSEGV, see
#1108739) which is IMO a serious usability concern.

An appropriate feedback here would be a desktop notification that the
application crashed, with its display (desktop) name, process path, PID and
cause (signal, exit code, OOM, eventually stderr) with value.

Ideally (wishlist) clicking on the notification should open some UI that
displays additional details and offers to restart the crashing app while
generating a detailed crash report that could be used in a bug report. Then on
Debian offering to start reportbug in a way that automatically attaches the
report would be great.

Best regards,