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Alexander Akulich edited this page Feb 26, 2019 · 2 revisions

Telepathy Debugger

The plan is to develop libTpDebuggerQt — a backend for Telepathy debug messages monitor based on spec. The lib can base on KTp Debugger

What is wrong with KTp Debugger?

It does not detect services "on the fly"
It shows only connected CMs
It hardcodes mission control
It shows the same service as many times, as the service registered on the bus
It doesn't have QML UI
It mixes logic and widget
It looks like a part of KTp, but actually it does not depend on KTp

Subtasks

Extract logic from the (widget-based) UI
Reimplement service detection, so the debugger would be able to monitor all processes with exposed Debug interface
Implement a widget-based GUI for desktop
Reimplement KTp Debugger on top of the new classes
Add a message model for QML
Implement a QQC2-based UI for mobile devices
Implement a Silica-based UI for Sailfish OS

Frontends

Pure Qt
KTP Debugger (ported to this lib)
QML-based debugger for Plasma Mobile
QML-based debugger for Sailfish OS

C++/Qt-based replacement for DBus debugger (Bustle)

What is Bustle

https://blogs.gnome.org/wjjt/2008/11/13/bustle-a-d-bus-activity-charting-tool/

https://willthompson.co.uk/bustle/0.4.0-video.webm

QDBusMonitor (the replacement project)

Repository: qdbusmonitor

Status: initial development