FFe: gnome-control-center lacks any replacement for unity-control-center's Diagnostics tab for managing crash reports

that was provided by an external plugin in the past, but of course upstream gnome-control-center no longer supports those panels.

Might it fit in the "Details" list?

Unity's Diagnostics subpanel is provided by activity-log-manager-control-center. There's a standalone version provided by activity-log-manager. (For code, See src/diagnostic-widgets.c)

activity-log-manager is mostly about configuring zeitgeist, but GNOME doesn't really use zeitgeist. I think the only reason it's still installed by default is to benefit Unity users.

GNOME's Privacy panel does have an "Automatic Problem Reporting" section to manage sending error reports to Fedora's abrt. (See panels/privacy/cc-privacy-panel.c and privacy.ui)

I think there's a decent chance that a patch to add a compile-time option to enable support for whoopsie (Ubuntu's service) could be merged upstream. I mean Fedora really wants other distros to use abrt but I don't think that has happened yet so it's still a distro-specific feature. See openSUSE where this has been proposed for years: https://hackweek.suse.com/projects/integrate-abrt-to-opensuse (Incidentally, I believe SUSE uses Canonical's apport!)

OK, well regardless, is there any simple way a user can find out the URL for looking up their own crash reports?

Presently the only way I know is in Unity7: click "Show Previous Reports" which leads to:
   https://errors.ubuntu.com/user/LONG_UNIQUE_ID

You can find that ID in /var/lib/whoopsie/whoopsie-id . That file is only readable by root though. I guess they thought that it was security/privacy problem to allow other people to easily associate reported errors with a particular computer/person.

See also https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ErrorTracker (which doesn't mention the whoopsie ID right now)

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

We definitely want this in. Didier said he'd review the change. If possible, it should be uploaded today to beat UIF.

Thanks, FFe approved.

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-control-center - 1:3.26.0-0ubuntu1

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gnome-control-center (1:3.26.0-0ubuntu1) artful; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release
  * debian/control.in:
    - Depend on language-selector-gnome >= 0.179
  * Backport 2 patches to fix double app menu when desktop doesn't handle
    app menu (LP: #1717197)
    - git_split-window-decorations.patch
    - git_disable-menubar.patch
  * Add ubuntu-language-support.patch:
    - Add 'Manage Installed Languages' button to Region & Language panel to
      work around bug 1631750
  * Replace ubuntu_external_panels.patch with simpler
    OnlyShowIn/NotShowIn patch applied upstream

 -- Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> Thu, 14 Sep 2017 11:47:25 -0400

I've sent our patch upstream to see if we can get a version of it included. I suspect it'll need some changes in order to be acceptable, assuming they want it. So I'll try to address that as needed.