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["Sergey \"Shnatsel\" Davidoff" <sergey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Then you probably haven't properly installed it.

I recommend using ATK for programmatically extracting strings. It's also
compatible with Qt (given you have the required package installed, which
Ubuntu ships by default and elementary OS should pull in on installing Qt)
and possibly with other toolkits and doesn't require loading custom GTK
modules.

Before you ask, GtkParasite is probably not a great idea for unit testing
either since it's a primarily interactive tool. Canonical maintains a
custom solution for unit testing on GTK and Qt apps, with the GTK one being
slightly less maintained. It is in turn based on per-package unit testing
infrastructure inherited from Debian and expanded by Ubuntu. Hit up on
Martin Pitt's Ubuntu Developer Week talk on quality assurance for details.

2013/3/22 dkotrada <dkotrada@xxxxxxxxx>

> vrcmr@t61:~$ GTK_MODULES=gtkparasite gedit
> Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gtkparasite"
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> 2013/3/22 dkotrada <dkotrada@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>> I've installed. How can I start it?
>>
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>> 2013/3/22 dkotrada <dkotrada@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>> @Shnatsel could this be used for lookup translation? Where the string
>>> exactly located?
>>>
>>>
>>> 2013/3/22 Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff <sergey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>>> Hey guys,
>>>>
>>>> Continuing the list of awesome GTK tools is a tool that allows fiddling
>>>> with live GTK2 and GTK3 UIs. It's called GtkParasite and has been around
>>>> for quite a while, but was ported to GTK3 only recently.
>>>>
>>>> For designers it means that you can push the pixels in the real app in
>>>> real time until you're satisfied and then just show the values to a dev. No
>>>> more recompiling things over and over to change one margin value over and
>>>> over. Edit away!
>>>>
>>>> For developers... I'd better quote the official website<http://chipx86.github.com/gtkparasite/>
>>>> :
>>>>
>>>> Developing and debugging UIs can be a pain. When something goes wrong,
>>>>> it's not always obvious why. You can waste hours writing logging statements
>>>>> only to find out that a widget is in the wrong container, or an attribute
>>>>> wasn't set correctly.
>>>>>
>>>>> Developing isn't much better either. Ever spend time writing temporary
>>>>> code just to test a new feature, code you know you're going to throw away
>>>>> in an hour, and yet you end up spending the next 20 minutes debugging your
>>>>> temporary code? Sucks, doesn't it?
>>>>>
>>>>> What your program really needs is a good Parasite infestation.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Here's a good introductory screencast that explains the Parasite
>>>> workflow:
>>>> http://chipx86.github.com/gtkparasite/video/parasite-intro.avi
>>>>
>>>> Binary packages for Ubuntu can be obtained from
>>>> https://launchpad.net/~phurley/+archive/gtkparasite
>>>> The PPA currently provides packages only for Quantal. I've contacted
>>>> the author and asked to copy the packages to Precise series. In the
>>>> meanwhile, Quantal packages work just fine when manually installed on
>>>> Precise/Luna.
>>>>
>>>> Happy hacking!
>>>> --
>>>> Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff
>>>> OS architect @ elementary
>>>>
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>>>
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Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff
OS architect @ elementary