Bug#694075: ITP: gtkparasite -- GTK+ debugging and development tool
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Package name: gtkparasite
Homepage: http://chipx86.github.com/gtkparasite/
License: MIT
Description: GTK+ debugging and development tool
Parasite is a debugging and development tool that runs inside your GTK+
application's process. It can inspect your application, giving you detailed
information on your UI, such as the hierarchy, X window IDs, widget
properties, and more. You can modify properties on the fly in order to
experiment with the look of your UI.
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But you can go further than that. You can actually modify your application
logic while the program is running! Parasite includes an embedded Python
shell that lets you write new code that directly interacts with your
application's UI, regardless of the language the application is written in.
Create new dialogs, attach temporary signal handlers to buttons, test out
new logic, and gather additional debug information.
This package had been packaged by Devid in 2009 [1] but was later removed
on request due to lack of upstream activity [2]. Lately upstream started to
support GTK3 so we should provide this package again.
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=514033
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=638178
Thanks,
Anthony
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