Hi, In the article "Shifting toward Qt": http://lwn.net/Articles/607563/
One of the mentioned problems is the GTK+ documentation. I don't agree with that, I think the API is well documented. But what is really missing is a good and recent book, for an introduction to how to write a GLib/GTK+ application. The GGAD book, by Havoc Pennington, was really good: http://ometer.com/books.html http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/details.php?ebook=1811 It is an "advanced internals"/"conceptual understanding" kind of book, which is needed for those wanting to clearly understand what they are doing when programming, which will result to better software quality. With such a book, there is a single source of useful information to get started as a developer. Currently the tutorials and documentation are scattered, that's why I've written a small guide: https://wiki.gnome.org/S%C3%A9bastienWilmet/DevGettingStarted But clearly a book would be a better solution. GTK+ 3 is currently a bit unstable. But GLib, GObject and GIO are stable enough to write a book. For GTK+, the version 4 will normally be as stable as GTK+ 2. The book should have a free license (e.g. Creative Commons) and be available on the web. It should be written by an experienced developer, ideally a GLib/GTK+ maintainer. There is no better way to advertise the GNOME development platform, to have more applications written in GTK+, and indirectly more GNOME developers. What do you think? Sébastien _______________________________________________ engagement-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list
