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NO STARCH PRESS RELEASES THE OFFICIAL GNOME 2 DEVELOPER'S GUIDE

Submitted by stro on Sat, 2004-04-17 10:57. Gnome Foundation

An increasing number of developers worldwide are interested in GNOME, the user-friendly GUI and desktop development platform for UNIX and Linux. However, the development documentation for GNOME, while voluminous, is intimidating to a developer not wholly familiar with the GNOME development process. To help rectify this situation, No Starch Press and the GNOME Foundation announce the release of The Official GNOME 2 Developers Guide, the first English-language book about developing with GNOME 2. With this book, current and would-be GNOME developers can come up to speed with the building blocks of GNOME development: GLib, GTK, and the GNOME API's.
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Oh great...

Submitted by Exigentsky on Mon, 2004-04-19 03:25.

Finally, a book on developing for GNOME attempting to remedy the lack of good up to date developer documentation. This book is in a field of its own.

It's a shame that the book will already be out of date on release, it is attempting to teach GTK 2.0 and the GNOME 2.0 Desktop and Developer platform, not GTK 2.4 and GNOME 2.6.

This is what I hate about books on software, unless the software is extremely popular than its books will be out of date.

I will flip through it regardless of it's age, but I won't be buying it. In the meantime, I found that KDE suffers from the same lack of good and up to date printed documentation. I would like to see a book from the KDE camp too so I can evaluate each desktop's developer potential better.

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