Re: gtkmm wiki

["Murray Cumming" <murrayc murrayc com>]

> Another topic regarding documentation.
>
> I think the docs for using gtkmm are at a good state. I'm not a newbie
> and no pro, but I know mastering a gui-toolkit is only one thing about
> coding an app.
>
> There are two things which come to my mind when looking back:
>
> First:
>         In the the beginning I tried to code everything by myself
>         because it was just about having fun. But when doing real work
>         it seems to be an holy rule to use existing libs!
>
> Second:
>         Understanding and adaoting examples is an efficient way to get
>         things done.
>
> I want (or have to) make things portable!
> There is a hole bunch of c++ libs(e.g. boost), wrappers(e.g. libxml++,
> gtkmm) and c libs which are useful without a wrapper (e.g. gsl) out
> there to accomplish this, but nearly no docs about using them together.
> If I figured out how to get something done I want to shared this by
> writing an documented example. I might not be the only one ;)
>
> I don't think it's the task of gtkmm to provide the ability to do this
> and I'm not sure about if it's gnome's business to provide docs about
> using gtk or gtkmm for making none-gnome apps.
>
> ??? any ideas ???

I suggest that you try to write the documentation/examples and then we'll
figure out where best to put it. The wiki is a perfect place to start. If
we don't figure out the best place then at least it's in some place.

Murray Cumming
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