Future Work

Planned features that are not allocated to a release yet.

(Features that have been implemented can be looked up in the Road Map.)

Injectors

• Mac bundle injector
• Static "injector"
• Injector auto-detector in the launcher to find the best available one

General

• Show filesystem watchers?
• Show running threads
• QTimeZone browser
• "static GammaRay", ie allow access to tools that merely introspect your Qt installation rather than a specific target from a stand-alone tool (fonts, locales, etc).

Core

• Add generic infrastructure for reporting detected problems in a central place, such as:
  • shortcut conflicts
  • modeltest issues
  • nested layout margins
  • dangling QStates
• C++ object origin tracing.
• Infrastructure for per-target settings.

Tools

Event Trace

• global event filter, user selectable event type, dump all data contained in the corresponding event, and where it's addressed to
• same as above, but for native events
• trace propagation chain through items/widgets
• show running event loops and their backlog
• trace event sources to enable backtraces on deferred deletion or cross-thread invocations

Model/View

• Runtime attachable model test
• Integration of Steve's proxy model tests and model test recorder

Style Inspector

• Support style hints, layout spacing, sub-element rects
• Add QPaintBuffer paint introspection as done for QWidgets
• Allow to modify QStyleOption parameters
• Provide dummy widgets for styles that crash if the widget pointer is 0

Widgets

• Model shows object rather than layout hierarchy
• a WebInspector/Firebug like QSS debugger

Object Visualization

• Show signal/slot connections, and possibly also how often they are used

Meta Objects

• Support dynamic meta objects, especially for the creation statistics.
• Show alive object counts, not just total creation counts.

QtQuick 2

• See QtQuick2 page
• Binding visualization.

Qt Network

• Chart of QNetworkRequests / replies like the browser developer tools
  • See for example https://blogs.kde.org/2010/05/01/qnetworkaccessmanager-proxy-classes
  • Display timing info etc.
• Hook to force ignoring ssl errors to allow use of MITM proxies such as Burp suite for debugging purposes
• Display the SSL backend in use and version details
• Cookie jar editor.
• Access to QSslConfiguration

QSettings

• QSettings browser

QtWayland

• branch exists, pending integration of Wayland introspection patches

Qt3D

• scene graph view with remote view and entity picking support.
• frame graph view with access to intermediate rendering results and assembled render view commands
• geometry inspector
• material inspector
• display input aspect configuration
• access to backend structures

State Machines

• support for the new backend of QtSCXML

QtPositioning

• manual override of the GPS position, with support for track replay

QPrinter

• can we capture the paint commands on a QPrinter for display in the paint analyzer somehow?