Re: What's wrong with the docs?

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

Hi,

John Coppens schrieb:
> Hello all...
>
> There must be something terribly wrong somewhere, when I try to find
> documentation on operation with GTK+ or GDK elements, I always seem to
> get _much_ more documentation from the Python/Perl libraries than from
> the actual C interface. I'm sure others noticed the same trend.
>
> So, why is this?
>
> - Are the original (C/C++) docs really so scarse they don't appear at
>   the top of of the list? or...
>
> - Is something in the google algorithms preferencial to anything but C?
>
> - Are those docs maybe declared unaccessible by the spider engines?
>   (by robots.txt or so)

I guess library.gnome.org is just too new and maybe not linked that much yet (I
used good to search for sites that link to it and found links inside it).

> - Or are those alternative languages just much more popular than C?
>
> Which makes this question pop up: Wouldn't it be interesting/practical
> to have _common_ documentation. Say, GtkWidget is used in Python like
> this, in C like this, etc.? I could even serve as an educational tool
> to compare languages.
I though about this several times, but don't think it will work. Too much of the
api is specific to the environment.

Stefan

> Just idle thoughts...
>
> John
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