Iftach Sadeh / ctools

So far any exception occuring during the construction of the ctools were not catched. This is corrected now.

Since the new GApplication logger methods are more compact than the old format the "logTerse()" etc. constructs have been replaced by the new logger methods. At the same time, the chattiness levels have been reviewed with the following behaviour:
- TERSE: only headers
- NORMAL: standard output, only main results or computations
- EXPLICIT: detailed output
- VERBOSE: verbose output, mainly for diagnostics