Re: [gnome-love]Wow.

[Matthew Walton <mxw00u Cs Nott AC UK>]

I'd be being one of those people too. I won't claim to be a decent 
programmer because I'm not but I know a bit of C, some C++, I've dabbled 
in Gtk+ and gtkmm, and I can hold my own in Java and Delphi (not that 
that's much use!) and I know some Haskell, Perl and Tcl too. The 
symptoms of a Computer Science student...

But yes, Kent raises a good point here. Documentation! It's all very 
well wanting people to write documentation (I could probably do some 
myself, and may very well volunteer to do so when exam fever dies down) 
but you do really have to know how to use a thing to write the docs for 
it. And gdk-pixbuf does seem to be becoming very important especially 
for GNOME. I'm not even 100% sure what it is - something similar to 
Imlib, yes? Of course, documentation does seem to be the key thing that 
some Open Source/Free Software projects are lacking in, probably because 
it's boring to write.

The Gtk+ docs are pretty good, by the way. Good enough, anyway... but 
I've never managed to get a GNOME app up and running. Guess I need to 
spend a bit more time playing with that, learning my way around the 
GNOME libs and so forth. Is there a good place to start at with this or 
do I just trawl through the docs and the header files and some existing 
GNOME programs to see what's going on?

Good idea for a list, by the way. And cool name too :-)

Matt

Kent Nyberg wrote:

> So..  i guess i am one of those that you people need to help in the
> process of becomming a 
> real gnome programmer :)
> Actually, i am already in love with gnome and i would do almost anything
> to make gnome better..  but since i cant 
> afford to buy those expensive books about gtk+/gnome programming,  i am
> stuck with all the documentation 
> that i can find on the internet.
>
> Right now i am in a big need of documentation on libgdk-pixbuf, but i
> cant find any :(
> I have the API doc's that is on developer.gnome.. but that's not enough
> :(
> I need examples to understand it better, but i cant find good examples.
> Maybe i should take a lesson in how to search in google.. but i realy
> cant find any good examples 
> or tutorials on libgdk-pixbuf.
> Can some one tell me where to find that?
>
> I am sorry if this is the wrong list for this kind of questions..  but
> can you please tell 
> me which list i should ask on then?
>
> Have a nice day!
> /Kent.