On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 8:24 PM, [email protected] <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I'm currently switching from gnome2 to gnome3. Is a very huge change, but I
> like most of things, like I'm more focused on one task and not on a lo of
> them.
>
> But I have the problem that I *really* need Hamster time tracker
> application for my daily work, and actually the applet was very cool because
> I allways saw the current activity and don't forget to change it. But now
> there is no applets. I'm okay with that as long as you provide real
> alternatives to replace things we used before.
>
> So I'm writing a gnome-shell extension with that purpouse: add a button to
> the panel where I can see an change my current activity. More or less it
> works, but I'm having problems with DBus (wich is for me a very ancient and
> rare kind of black magic) and I need to know what is failing. But is no
> easy:
>
>    - Is there anyway to debug "step-by-step" the execution of a
>    gnome-shell extenion?
>    - Can I put breakpoints and debug it?
>
> Integrating jsd with the looking glass was planned, but the looking glass
hasn't been worked on in a while. There's a lot of improvements *I* want to
make to the looking glass (Firebug-level CSS tweaking), and I may do
something about this and that next week...


> If the answer is no, how the hell a mortal person can debug it's own
> application?
>

Log everything... You can also force a gdb breakpoint from javascript with
"global.breakpoint();"

The lack of documentation on this subject is something I think you should
> work on.
>
> Best regards,
>
> --
> Pablo Recio Quijano
>
>
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