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

[Christian Hergert <christian hergert me>]

Hi Sébastien,

On 09/16/2014 12:12 PM, Sébastien Wilmet wrote:
> Hi Christian,
> What do you think about the idea described here:
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2014-September/msg00064.html

I don't know what to respond with other than, "Yes" :-)

> Having the tutorials written in the glib git repository has the
> advantage that it'll hopefully be updated when something becomes
> outdated.

If our documentation is any indicator, it probably wont...

> However for a printed book, copying the tutorials and gluing them
> together may not have a good result. If the path to follow is GLib ->
> GObject -> GIO -> GTK+ [1], when reading the GObject introduction, there
> should be a reference to the GLib introduction. And in the GLib
> conclusion, a reference to the GObject introduction.
>
> Also, the GTK-Doc documentation is written with links to symbols in
> mind. For a printed book, there are references to sections/pages.
>
> [1] Maybe having GTK+ at the end is not great. So having a short
> introduction to GTK+ to be able to display a window with a label and
> a button could be added in an earlier chapter.

We could do things as a "volume set" sort of like art of computer
programming. Each book could focus on a different vertical of the platform.

> From your linked mail: I like the idea of getting applications to the
point of doing the logic in C, and the UI in XML/JS (or Vala or Python).
I think that makes a lot of sense from a bunch of angles.

-- Christian