On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Huan Truong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > As the summer break is drawing near and I think I will have some spare > weeks sitting at home so I decided to learn to program in linux, > specifically how to (1) create a GNOME GTK application
The API of Qt really is a lot cleaner I would urge you to try it out first. :) Qt apps look and work fine in Gnome after all. The following has some suggestions on how to: http://doc.trolltech.com/4.4/how-to-learn-qt.html The tutorials being a good place to start. There are bindings for Python, Ruby and Java if you don't want to tackle C++ right away. Though you say you want native stuff, so I'd say Qt/C++ is really the best solution (having dabbled a bit in Gtk/Glib/C code... it's objectively scary with_a_whole_lot_of_underscores). > (2) pack it > for some architectures for debian (amd64 and i386) and (3) put it with > some other required packages on a repo. For this, Ubuntu has a whole system of training folks: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/GettingStarted > I think (2) and (3) will not be very difficult to learn but do you > have any suggestion on which sources should I learn from? > > About (1) I have to admit I have no past experience on developing on > linux so I'm totally a newbie. I want to learn something that I can > control the most, not some IDE / WYSWYG stuff... and also something > that creates native applications, not the Python thing. > > Thanks in advance, > - Huan. ----------------------------------------------------------------- To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -----------------------------------------------------------------
