Make the message optional

web/apps/photos/src/components/Sidebar/MapSettings.tsx

@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ const ModifyMapSettings = ({ open, onClose, onRootClose, mapEnabled }) => {
             await updateMapEnabled(false);
             handleClose();
         } catch (e) {
-            log.error("Error", e);
+            log.error(e);
             setPhase("failed");
         }
     };
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ const ModifyMapSettings = ({ open, onClose, onRootClose, mapEnabled }) => {
             await updateMapEnabled(true);
             handleClose();
         } catch (e) {
-            log.error("Error", e);
+            log.error(e);
             setPhase("failed");
         }
     };

web/apps/photos/src/pages/_app.tsx

@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ export default function App({ Component, pageProps }: AppProps) {
     );
 
     const onGenericError = useCallback((e: unknown) => {
-        log.error("Error", e);
+        log.error(e);
         showMiniDialog(genericErrorDialogAttributes());
     }, []);
 

web/packages/base/components/MiniDialog.tsx

@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ export const AttributedMiniDialog: React.FC<
                     await attributes.continue?.action?.();
                     resetPhaseAndClose();
                 } catch (e) {
-                    log.error("Error", e);
+                    log.error(e);
                     setPhase("failed");
                 }
             }}

web/packages/base/log.ts

@@ -65,8 +65,11 @@ const messageWithError = (message: string, e?: unknown) => {
     return `${message}: ${es}`;
 };
 
-const logError = (message: string, e?: unknown) => {
-    const m = `[error] ${messageWithError(message, e)}`;
+const logError = (message: unknown, e?: unknown) => {
+    const m =
+        typeof message == "string"
+            ? `[error] ${messageWithError(message, e)}`
+            : `[error] ${messageWithError("Error", message)}`;
     console.error(m);
     if (shouldLogToDisk) logToDisk(m);
 };
@@ -128,6 +131,9 @@ export default {
      * any arbitrary object that we obtain, say, when in a try-catch handler (in
      * JavaScript any arbitrary value can be thrown).
      *
+     * If only one argument is specified, and it is not a string, then it is
+     * taken as the error to be printed, paired with a generic message.
+     *
      * The log is written to disk and printed to the browser console.
      */
     error: logError,