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Automatic crash reports
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Description
### Problem
If there is a crash in an elementary app/component I've seen requests to users to collect dumps/traces and upload to github issue reports, which is a manual process and I presume many people find it complicated to do.
### Proposal
Configure the OS to automatically capture crash dumps which can then either automatically be uploaded to github issue reports, or if the reporting might risk a flood of tickets, at least make it straightforward for users to view/post to their own github issue reports, say via the feedback app.
### Prior Art (Optional)
There was a recent series of blog posts by KDE dev about automatic collection of crash reports, see:
https://planet.kde.org/harald-sitter-2024-08-20-plasma-crash-course-kcrash/
https://planet.kde.org/harald-sitter-2024-08-27-plasma-crash-course-coredumpd/
https://planet.kde.org/harald-sitter-2024-09-04-plasma-crash-course-drkonqi/
Perhaps elementary OS can have similar approach, if not the third one, just collect it in the feedback app to post to github, I think Ubuntu has some tool (is it called apport?) that does something similar.
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