Re: [gnome-love] where do I start?

[Matthew Brichacek <mbrichacek customlinuxsolutions com>]

Thanks to all who replied to my original post, some great ideas and
positive feedback to keep me on track.  Chema's post seemed to hit home,
I need to take smaller steps than I was trying to, I had to start out
slow with Java and any other language I have learned so this can't be
any diff.  Armed with the info I have been given I think I am going to
hit the bug lists and see if I can start to make a contribution to these
projects.  

Thanks again for all the positive help,
best of luck to all...


Matthew Brichacek


On 09 Aug 2001 11:17:14 -0500, Ricardo Amadeo Contreras wrote:
> On 08 Aug 2001 13:55:01 -0400, Matthew Brichacek wrote:
> > Hello,
> >     I was wondering the best docs to get started with.  I understand C
> > itself and have worked alot with java and perl.  I started reading the
> > libbonobo, CORBA and libxml docs but now I am feeling kindof lost.  I
> > have only wrote a few very small apps in GTK but I have alot of ideas I
> > want to start putting into code.
> > Any ideas on what docs and tutorials would be a good place to start?
> > The next best thing to that would definately be a small project that
> > doesn't have a whole lot of code wrote yet, this would make it easy to
> > get an idea for the design and how the pieces are working together, I
> > started reading the Evolution code but WOW, that's alot of stuff to try
> > and just jump into.  I also started reading the setup-tools code but I
> > found myself getting lost again so for now I am back to looking for good
> > docs.
>
> Hi Matthew,
>
> I think we're both at the same stage at the moment.  I'm looking to get
> more involved as well... and like you, I am at a loss as to where to
> begin.
>
> I did find a nice utility called devhelp which allows me to access many
> (but not all) of the development documentation for GNOME and I
> definitely think it will become more usefull.  I'd suggest you take a
> look at it as well, if you haven't already.
> (http://devhelp.sourceforge.net/)  
>
> Of course there's always all of the documentation at
> http://developer.gnome.org , which includes lots of white papers,
> tutorials, API docs, etc...  as well as links to other resources.
>
> Personally, I'm setting my sights towards working on Evolution or
> Galeon, but I'm also considering starting off on a smaller project to
> ramp up.  In fact, I'm thinking of assisting the devhelp team, since I
> think it's a worthwhile cause... which would in turn help other people
> ramp up on developing for GNOME.  It also seems like a great way to
> discover what documentation exists and hopefully learn in the process.
>
> good luck!
>
> Paz,
>
>
> Ricardo
>
>
>
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