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

[Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>]

Sébastien Wilmet <swilmet gnome org> wrote:
...
> 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.

There is one book out there [1], although it's not free.

...
> 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?
...

More books on GNOME and GTK+ development would obviously be a good
thing, so by all means pursue this if it's something you feel
passionate about. That said, I doubt that one of the GLib/GTK+
maintainers has the time to write a book, and books are quite
difficult to update (as I think you've implied - maybe now isn't the
right time to generate that kind of documentation).

Personally, I think the best approach for us right now is to have a
framework that makes it quick and easy to write (and update) developer
docs. There's been some discussion about this recently, including a
thread on d-d-l. Building an effective developer site with a
collection of up-to-date tutorials seems like a good goal.

Allan

[1] https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/gnome-3-application-development-beginners-guide