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[Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Omg parasite works with gtk3 now. I'm so happy I could die T_T

Best Regards,
Daniel Foré

El mar 22, 2013, a las 3:20 a.m., "Sergey \"Shnatsel\" Davidoff" <sergey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escribió:

> 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:
> 
>> 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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