Bug 42558

Summary: Web Inspector: hide "toggle debugger" button when debugger is always enabled
Product: WebKit Reporter: Yury Semikhatsky <yurys>
Component: Web Inspector (Deprecated)Assignee: Yury Semikhatsky <yurys>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: Normal CC: bweinstein, joepeck, keishi, masterov, pfeldman, pmuellr, rik, timothy, yurys
Priority: P2    
Version: 528+ (Nightly build)   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Yury Semikhatsky 2010-07-19 05:03:43 PDT
Web Inspector: hide "toggle debugger" button when debugger is always enabled.
Comment 1 Yury Semikhatsky 2010-07-19 05:05:16 PDT
Created attachment 61939 [details]
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Comment 2 Yury Semikhatsky 2010-07-19 05:17:50 PDT
Comment on attachment 61939 [details]
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Clearing flags on attachment: 61939

Committed r63649: <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/63649>
Comment 3 Yury Semikhatsky 2010-07-19 05:18:05 PDT
All reviewed patches have been landed.  Closing bug.
Comment 4 Joseph Pecoraro 2010-07-19 09:48:43 PDT
So, now how can the user turn the debugger off? Is it lazy initialized so that
it is inactive until the user visits the Scripts panel? I don't like this change
unless there is something I am missing.
Comment 5 Pavel Feldman 2010-07-19 09:50:54 PDT
(In reply to comment #4)
> So, now how can the user turn the debugger off? Is it lazy initialized so that
> it is inactive until the user visits the Scripts panel? I don't like this change
> unless there is something I am missing.

This is not affecting WebKit/JSC. This was a regression on Chromium side that had  debugger enabled for all times. We've lost this little diverging bit of UI while aligning with the upstream inspector code.
Comment 6 Joseph Pecoraro 2010-07-19 09:54:28 PDT
Ahh, I see. Thanks for the explanation.
Comment 7 Patrick Mueller 2010-07-19 10:41:49 PDT
(In reply to comment #4)
> So, now how can the user turn the debugger off? Is it lazy initialized so that
> it is inactive until the user visits the Scripts panel? I don't like this change
> unless there is something I am missing.

I had the same conversation on IRC a little earlier.  :-)

I think this would have been clearer if instead of

    Preferences.debuggerAlwaysEnabled

it had been something like:

   Platform.debuggerAlwaysEnabled

In this case, the "debuggerAlwaysEnabled" isn't really a "preference", it's a static state of the platform, or something.  Always true for V8, always false for JSC, at least at that point in the code.  If you just went by the name alone, you'd guess, as I and probably Joe did, that this was the state associated with the radio button in the "enable script debugging" panel.

A comment would have also made this clear.