I am much into learning all-about-Gnome development lately, using GTK# and Mono. Unfortunately, the Mono/GTK# documentation is not that complete in regards of developing Gnome applications and this has being quite a stumbling block. The release of the "Official GNOME 2 Developer's Guide" book felt like a godsend to help clarify a few points about the GTK+ and Gnome architecture. But was it really?
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I was looking at buying this book, and I had been pondering for some time. This review pretty much sums up what I needed to hear.
You can download the correct index from http://nostarch.com/frameset.php?startat=gnome_toc .
No Star Press is going however to release a free version of the book under Creative Commons, non-commercial license.
Oh, now I understand all this mess in this days about .net and mono, eugenia is learning it 
I can't bring myself anything about Mono, but GTK is looking better as long as the documentation is up to date, and perhaps even reveals the direction they are going in ahead of time. An auto-complete IDE is still needed to ease the amount of typing that C language code requires. Real good and up to date information about makefiles and automake would be incredibly helpful. The last area that is interesting to know about are things like protocols and program design in the Unix tradition, separating mechanism from policy and creating simple, clear, and general program modules. The old C code will be around for a long time to come.
Hi Anonymous,
Anjuta autocompletes as-you-type your code: this applies not only to APIs in the libraries (like Glib) but also to variables, functions et cetera that you just defined.
This is working really well in the last stable release, and in the complex, even if there are still some sharp corners, overall Anjuta feels good.
Ciao, chris
I tried it before and it wasn't up to par, but I'll try the new version. I'd like an emacs that autocompletes GTK+, Glib, Pango, etc.
Anjuta autocompletes as-you-type your code: this applies not only to APIs in the libraries (like Glib) but also to variables, functions et cetera that you just defined.
I'm not familiar much with Gnome tools, but didn't Anjuta get stopped at some point and a an IDE called Scaffold came along? It looked pretty good.
Anjuta is very much around and being actively developed.
Of possible interest to folks looking to write Java Gnome/GTK+ apps:
http://java-gnome.sourceforge.net/
This is a programming book! Pictures are a waste of space; if you want to see what the app looks like, try compiling and running it.
I thought this book was excellent. It could have easily topped 600+ pages with some fluff added, but I'm glad it didn't.