Re: Need a good and recent book on GLib/GTK+

[Christian Hergert <christian hergert me>]

One of the things I'd like to do longer term is integrate tutorials into
Builder. (And a companion book/pdf to go with). But that is a while out.

-- Christian


On 08/16/2014 02:33 PM, Sébastien Wilmet wrote:
> 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
>
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