Re: Gtk3 Tutorial

[Dave M <dave nerd gmail com>]

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Dave M <dave nerd gmail com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 5:12 AM, Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com> wrote:
> > hi;
> >
> > On 4 September 2012 10:30, kevinphilp <kevin cybercolloids net> wrote:
> > > Emmanuele,
> > > Quite a few of the examples I use are based on examples from the C and
> > > Python tutorials. I will check out the Vala tutorial and see what I can
> > > "borrow" from their.
> >
> > I apologize, I clearly wasn't clear.
> >
> > what I meant was literally making a Perl translation of the Beginner's Tutorial:
> >
> >   http://developer.gnome.org/gnome-devel-demos/unstable/tutorial.py.html.en
> >
> > this tutorial is pretty good at introducing GTK+ to a new developer
> > (they have been written by new developers for new developers :-)) and
> > the docs team is going to expand them with other technologies of the
> > GNOME platform available through introspection.
> >
> > the documentation and code are available in Git:
> >
> >   http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-devel-docs
> >
> > the translation should then go on developer.gnome.org, and it will be
> > translatable and available even off line.
> >
> > this would improve the visibility of the Perl bindings in the GNOME
> > platform as well.
> >
> > ciao,
> >  Emmanuele.
> If no one else is interested, I'll take a stab at it.  I've already
> written a series of examples here
> (https://github.com/dave-theunsub/gtk3-perl-demos), and it probably
> wouldn't be too hard to change them to fit the tutorial.  Good
> practice, too.
Ok, I've finished a semi-decent draft of a Perl version of the Python
tutorial.  Anyone know how to get it onto gnome.org now?  I've asked
on gtk+ IRC channel but have not received an answer yet... is there a
better place to ask?

Also, a couple comments on this draft:
1. The Python version uses quite a few GIO examples.  In some cases I
found different ways to do the same objective; in a few others, I just
didn't or wasn't able to do them.
2. The unicode page is semi-weak, and I don't feel smart enough to do
it justice.  If someone else would like to take a stab at writing that
page or $something_else, that'd be just great.

Thanks,
Dave M