Hey Jamiil, Sounds like you've found yourself a mission in life!
Bob Jamiil wrote: > Ever since I started tinkering around the GTK+ and later on Gtkmm > toolkits, I've noticed a steady flow of programmers talking more and > more, and more passionately, about these toolkits. > > It came as a blessing when "Sams Teach Yourself GTK+ Programming in 21 > Days" was put on the bookstores' shelves in the year 2000. I remember > having to line up at the teller and noticing that two out of five > people had this book in their baskets or under their arms. That was my > queue to get on my newly installed Linux box and start typing GTK+ > code, sooner than later, I said to myself, this toolkit will become a > bread maker. Six years have gone by and there are very few programmers > who don't know what GTK+ is, and they are now making bread with it > (that is. are making money with it, in case you don't get my meaning). > I have found many GUI applications written in the C++ paradigm, but > using GTK+ code, which we fondly called "GTK++ code". The reason these > programmers are doing this is because it is easy to learn from a book, > since it can be taken to an unoccupied boardroom or a coffee shop. I > have found myself reading for hours in front of the computer, > neglecting my own biological needs because I cannot take the PC to > attend to them, or in buses or airplanes wishing I was able to just > pull a book and continue reading more about Gtkmm. The flexibility > that printed information provides is undoubtedly unmatchable. > > The documentation of Gtkmm is substantial and reach with examples, > however, for some programmers, like myself, who find the eloquence of > a book as important as the dry and tacit information it tries to > convey, as well the ability to carry that information to a more > convenient very important, a book on Gtkmm would come as true blessing. > > Gtkmm is no longer a baby child of GTK+, it has become a young adult > deserving of recognition and a status of independence. A book on Gtkmm > *must be written, there is no other option, and this must be done > before new programmers start to drift away, to a less powerful, but > more flexibly documented toolkit. > _______________________________________________ gtkmm-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list
