D-Feet is an open source software project designed from the ground up for GNOME/GTK+ developers who are looking for a simple and easy to use tool to inspect D-Bus interfaces of running applications, as well as to call the methods on those interfaces.
Features at a glance
Key features include the ability to view names on any D-Bus interface, execute methods with parameters on a D-Bus interface and view its return values, view values of properties, view interfaces, methods, exported objects and signals, as well as to view the complete command-line of services on the D-Bus interface.
Simple, modern and easy to use graphical user interface
Being designed for the GNOME desktop environment, the application uses a GTK+ graphical user interface that follows the GNOME HIG (Human Interface Design) specifications, keeping things simple and allowing developers to effortlessly inspect D-Bus interfaces of running programs.
It features two main views, System Bus and Session Bus, a built-in search functionality that allows you to sort the displayed Buses in real-time, as you type.
Furthermore, you can easily connect to the System Bus, the Session Bus or any other Bus using the gear button located on the main toolbar, next to the close button. The same gear button is also used to close current Bus connections.
Under the hood and availability
While the application is written entirely in the C++ programming language, its graphical user interface uses the GTK+ GUI toolkit. No other library or program is required to run the application, which can be installed as a standalone app on any open source desktop environment.
It is available for download as a source archive, which can be used on any GNU/Linux distribution. However, the best way to install D-Feet on your Linux box is to use the binary packages provided on the default software repositories of your distro.
Bottom line
Summing up, D-Feet is a great D-Bus interface inspector and debugger for the GNOME desktop environment. While it will install and work on any other open source graphical desktop project, we strongly believe that it was designed to be useful only on GNOME.
What is new in this release:
- Use locale.textdomain otherwise gtkbuilder translations don't work (Sebastien Bacher)
- .gitignore: Ignore generated localized help files (Simon McVittie)
- build: Put various Autotools droppings in build-aux/ (Simon McVittie)
- build: Stop using GNOME_COMPILE_WARNINGS (Simon McVittie)
- build: Replace deprecated use of gnome-autogen.sh with recommended autogen.sh (Simon McVittie)
- build: Put third-party macros in m4/ (Simon McVittie)
- Make pep8 happy (Thomas Bechtold)
- ExecuteMethodDialog: set_transient_for() (Will Thompson)
- ExecuteMethodDialog: Pretty-print multiple results (Simon McVittie)
- Fix PEP8 305 style error (Michael Biebl)
- Added Norwegian bokmal translation. (Kjartan Maraas)
- Added nb (Kjartan Maraas)
- Updated Danish translation (Ask Hjorth Larsen)
- Show values that have a logical False representation. (Benjamin Berg)
- Post release version bump to 0.3.13 (Thomas Bechtold)
What is new in version 0.3.12:
- Make pep8 happy (Thomas Bechtold)
- Revert "Don't use Wnck to get app-icons under non-X11" (Debarshi Ray)
- Assume Wnck is absent on non-X11 (Debarshi Ray)
- Specify the Wnck version to silence a warning (Debarshi Ray)
- Add Polish help translation (Piotr Drag)
- Add Friulian translation (Fabio Tomat)
- Updated Danish translation (Alan Mortensen)
- Updated Polish translation (Piotr Drag)
- Add Language headers to po files (Piotr Drag)
- Fix desktop file keywords translations (Kalev Lember)
- Post release version bump to 0.3.12 (Thomas Bechtold)
What is new in version 0.3.9:
- Wrap method signature in exec dialog
- Remove references to the obsoleted paned_buswatch
- introspection.ui: Use symbolic icons for the reload button
- Updated Greek translation
- Updated Slovenian translation
- Added French translation
- Updated Hungarian translation
- Updated Galician translations
- Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation
- Updated Serbian translation
- Updated Czech translation
- Updated Spanish translation
- Updated Polish translation
- Updated POTFILES.in
- Make AppData file translatable
- Update wiki page link
- Added Russian translation
- build: Fix previous commit
- data: Don't run update-desktop-database if DESTDIR is set
- Finnish translation update
What is new in version 0.3.8:
- Fix appdata distribution (Thomas Bechtold)
- Add appdata file for gnome-software (Thomas Bechtold)
- Update screenshot according to appdata guidelines (Thomas Bechtold)
- Add screenshot for appdata (Thomas Bechtold)
- introspection: fix showing unique-name for services with a well-known name (Aleksander Morgado)
- Updated Serbian translation (ÐoиN€Ð¾NÐ"Ð
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