Dear students, We know how hard it is to start, if you are totally new to the GNOME project. Probably, it will need some time until you are able to really do some productive stuff but once youre in... ;) I tried to summarize some things, which helped me to get into, some tutorials, some informations, ... Lets start with Oh.. I am lost... ===================================================================== No problem! I have a book for you: The official GNOME 2 developers guide. Actually, the book is a bit outdated, but still works most of the time. It gives a very nice introduction of how a gnome application is built. The author gave me the permission (anyway its licenced under a cc licence) to put it on my webserver. http://home.cs.tum.edu/~siegel/files/tog2dg.pdf Of course you could buy it on Amazon too... I am still lost and i do not know how that function is called ===================================================================== No problem! GNOME has a fully documentated API. Either install devhelp or point your browser to http://library.gnome.org/devel/references And maybe you can find the holy grail there too. Why do you have objects in c??? ===================================================================== Thats another awesome story ;) Either you want to read the book I mentioned above or the background about GObject http://library.gnome.org/devel/gobject/stable/pt01.html or an awesome tutorial http://library.gnome.org/devel/gobject/stable/pt02.html Now.. How do i build my code? ===================================================================== We use autotools in GNOME. In my opinion, it is really hard to understand it, and if you want to, read this http://vindaci.members.sonic.net/cbreak/projects/autotools/index.php3 of course, to build your project, you can just do: ./autogen.sh --prefix=/somewhere/on/your/disk && make && make install Or... How do i build the other gnome applications? ===================================================================== Some of you may asked yourself, how a GNOME developer actually works on GNOME: does he compile everything by himself, are there unstable packages.. Well, just take a look at jhbuild. jhbuild can compile and run every GNOME application, without interfering with your stable, installed system and software http://library.gnome.org/devel/jhbuild/unstable/ So.. I finished coding, what should I do now? ===================================================================== http://live.gnome.org/Git/Developers Do I have to tell you more? Git ===================================================================== Ok.. you may want to get the latest development code or submit your own patch by using git (if you have a git account), or create a branch and let your mentor branch the code http://live.gnome.org/Git I am bored now ===================================================================== There are many other gnome/gtk related tutorials available here: http://library.gnome.org/devel/guides http://developer.gnome.org/doc/tutorials/ ===================================================================== Do you have any further question? Don't be afraid to ask, we are here to help! ;) daniel -- this mail was sent using 100% recycled electrons ================================================ daniel g. siegel <dgsiegel gmail com> http://home.cs.tum.edu/~siegel gnupg key id: 0x6EEC9E62 fingerprint: DE5B 1F64 9034 1FB6 E120 DE10 268D AFD5 6EEC 9E62 encrypted email preferred
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