http://www.osnews.com/story/7158/Book_Review_The_Official_GNOME_2_Developer_s_Guide Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:21:05 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? 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. Tue, 25 May 2004 04:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? 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. Tue, 25 May 2004 05:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? this has being quite a stambling block.

Stumbling, not stambling.

The release of the "Official GNOME 2 Developer's Guide" book felt
godsend to help clarify a few points

I'm assuming you meant "felt like a godsend" - in which case, take out "release of" (Unless you mean the _release_ felt like a godsend, and not the book itself). Tue, 25 May 2004 08:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Oh, now I understand all this mess in this days about .net and mono, eugenia is learning it Tue, 25 May 2004 09:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? 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. Tue, 25 May 2004 10:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? 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 Tue, 25 May 2004 10:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? 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. Tue, 25 May 2004 10:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? 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. Tue, 25 May 2004 11:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Anjuta is very much around and being actively developed. Tue, 25 May 2004 16:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Of possible interest to folks looking to write Java Gnome/GTK+ apps:
http://java-gnome.sourceforge.net/ Wed, 26 May 2004 05:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? I guess Bonobo is missing .I feel they are ditching it Wed, 26 May 2004 08:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? 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. Wed, 26 May 2004 18:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments