Re: [gnome-love] Doc Links [was: Re: [gnome-love]Wow.]

[Kent Nyberg <blurkis zxmail com>]

> 
> The GNOME developer docs are intermittant in quality and coverage.  You
> will find that some docs are good, some are bad, some are obsolete, and
> some don't exist yet.  (Hopefully some people on this list can help to
> improve the situation.)  We hope to have all the developer documentation
> updated well in advance of the GNOME 2.0 release.  Nonetheless, there is a
> fair amount of good documentation to help you get started...
> 
> For an overview of the architecture, look here:
> http://developer.gnome.org/arch/
> 
> For various documents, look here:
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/
> 
> What I would personally highly recommend to anybody getting started
> hacking on GNOME is George Lebl's tutorials he wrote for IBM
> DeveloperWorks.  You can find them here:
> 
> http://www-105.ibm.com/developerworks/papers.nsf/dw/linux-papers-byauthor?OpenDocument&Start=1&Count=500&Expand=24
> 
> If that link gives you trouble, most of them are linked from here:
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/tutorials/
> 
> API docs are here:
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/
> 
> And I'll repeat the book links for completeness, even though Miguel
> already gave it:
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/books/
> 
> And if you are interested in non-hacking projects, the documentation for
> various GNOME projects can be found in each of the project pages:
> http://developer.gnome.org/projects/
> 
> Oh yeah - and if you want to contribute but you aren't sure what is the
> right thing for you, look at:
> http://developer.gnome.org/documents/joining-gnome/
> 
> Happy reading.  And once you get things figured out, consider writing some
> developer documentation yourself.
> 
> Dan
> 



The documentation found at ibm by George was GREAT(!!!!!), to bad only
some
of them were download'able in some kind of format like pdf.