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
• Show running event loops
• Show pending events, trace event sources for backtraces on deferred deletion or cross-thread invocations.
• QTimeZone browser

Core

• Add generic infrastructure for reporting detected problems in a central place, such as:
  • shortcut conflicts
  • modeltest issues
  • nested layout margins
  • dangling QStates

Tools

Model/View

• Runtime attachable model test
• Show selection models properly
• 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

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
• Access to the cookie jar
• Access to QSslConfiguration
• List all devices and their properties

QSettings

• QSettings browser

QtWayland

• branch exists, pending integration of Wayland introspection patches

Qt3D

• scene graph view with remote view
• 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