GNOME Developer Tutorials

In this section you will find tutorials for creating GNOME applications, applets, components, and more.

We have tried to provide PostScript versions for you to print where applicable. If there is a tutorial that is kept off-site and has no PostScript, please contact the author.

GTK+

For a start you should take a look at the GTK+ 1.2 Tutorial HTML | Package

Shimaki Matsubara's Japanese GTK Tutorial.

Simple GNOME Apps

George Lebl's tutorial on the GNOME libraries discusses some of the basic issues involved in writing a GNOME application. HTML | HTML tarball | PostScript (See a ChangeLog to see what has been updated recently)

ORBit

Ewan Birney has information on using ORBit (the CORBA implementation used by GNOME).

Panel Applets

Read Gergo Erdi's tutorial on Writing GNOME panel applets using the GTK+/GTK-- widget set. HTML | PostScript

Also, you can read the gnome-core/panel/APPLET_WRITING document.

CVS

Tom Tromey's tutorial on how to import a new GNOME project into the CVS tree.

Shimaki Matsubara's Japanese CVS Tutorial.

GNOME Help System

Here is a tutorial on adding online help to GNOME applications.

Imlib

Here is a tutorial on the imlib image library.

autoconf

This tutorial covers the autoconf tool.

Shimaki Matsubara's Japanese autoconf Tutorial.

automake

Shimaki Matsubara's Japanese automake Tutorial.

gettext

Shimaki Matsubara's Japanese gettext Tutorial.

Writing Whitepapers

The Writing Whitepapers tutorial is a quick and nasty paper put together by David Mason and Michael Johnson to help developers write GNOME Whitepapers using SGML with the DocBook DTD.

Using the SAX Interface of Libxml

James Henstridge wrote the "Using the SAX Interface of Libxml" tutorial that gives an explanation of what the SAX interface of libxml is, when you might want to use it, and how to write parsers with it. It is a good idea to read this if you are planning on making your application use XML to read/write data. HTML | PostScript

How You Can Help

If would like to contribute a tutorial you should refer to the Developer Documentation Project page.