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+<!doctype book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V3.1//EN" []>
+<book>
+
+ <bookinfo>
+ <date>June 21st 2000</date>
+ <title>GTK+ FAQ</title>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author>
+ <firstname>Tony</firstname>
+ <surname>Gale</surname>
+ </author>
+ <author>
+ <firstname>Shawn</firstname>
+ <surname>Amundson</surname>
+ </author>
+ <author>
+ <firstname>Emmanuel</firstname>
+ <surname>Deloget</surname>
+ </author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <abstract>
+ <para> This document is intended to answer questions that are
+ likely to be frequently asked by programmers using GTK+ or
+ people who are just looking at using GTK+. </para>
+ </abstract>
+ </bookinfo>
+
+ <toc></toc>
+
+<!-- ***************************************************************** -->
+ <chapter>
+ <title>General Information</title>
+ <para>Here's a paragraph of text because it is stylistically poor
+ to start a section right after the chapter title.</para>
+ <sect1>
+ <title></title>
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Before anything else: the greetings</title>
+ <para>The FAQ authors want to thank:</para>
+ <itemizedlist spacing=Compact>
+ <listitem>
+ <simpara>Havoc Pennington</simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <simpara>Erik Mouw</simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <simpara>Owen Taylor</simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <simpara>Tim Janik</simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <simpara>Thomas Mailund Jensen</simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <simpara>Joe Pfeiffer</simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <simpara>Andy Kahn</simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <simpara>Federico Mena Quntero</simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <simpara>Damon Chaplin</simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <simpara>and all the members of the GTK+ lists</simpara>
+ </listitem></itemizedlist>
+ <para> If we forgot you, please email us! Thanks again (I know,
+ it's really short :) </para>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <!-- ----------------------------------------------------------------- -->
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Authors</title>
+ <para>The original authors of GTK+ were:</para>
+ <itemizedlist spacing=Compact>
+ <listitem>
+ <simpara>Peter Mattis</simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <simpara>Spencer Kimball</simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <simpara>Josh MacDonald</simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ <para>Since then, much has been added by others. Please see the
+ AUTHORS file in the distribution for the GTK+ Team.</para>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <!-- ----------------------------------------------------------------- -->
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>What is GTK+?</title>
+ <para>GTK+ is a small and efficient widget set designed with
+ the general look and feel of Motif. In reality, it looks much
+ better than Motif. It contains common widgets and some more
+ complex widgets such as a file selection, and color selection
+ widgets.</para>
+ <para>GTK+ provides some unique features. (At least, I know of
+ no other widget library which provides them). For example, a
+ button does not contain a label, it contains a child widget,
+ which in most instances will be a label. However, the child
+ widget can also be a pixmap, image or any combination possible
+ the programmer desires. This flexibility is adhered to
+ throughout the library.</para>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <!-- ----------------------------------------------------------------- -->
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>What is the + in GTK+?</title>
+ <para>Peter Mattis informed the gtk mailing list that:</para>
+ <para><quote>I originally wrote gtk which included the three
+ libraries, libglib, libgdk and libgtk. It featured a flat
+ widget hierarchy. That is, you couldn't derive a new widget
+ from an existing one. And it contained a more standard
+ callback mechanism instead of the signal mechanism now present
+ in gtk+. The + was added to distinguish between the original
+ version of gtk and the new version. You can think of it as
+ being an enhancement to the original gtk that adds object
+ oriented features.</quote></para>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <!-- ----------------------------------------------------------------- -->
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Does the G in GTK+, GDK and GLib stand for?</title>
+ <para>GTK+ == Gimp Toolkit</para>
+ <para>GDK == GTK+ Drawing Kit</para>
+ <para>GLib == G Libray</para>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <!-- ----------------------------------------------------------------- -->
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Where is the documentation for GTK+?</title>
+ <para>In the GTK+ distribution's doc/ directory you will find
+ the reference material for both GTK and GDK, this FAQ and the
+ GTK Tutorial.</para>
+ <para>In addition, you can find links to HTML versions of
+ these documents by going to <ulink url="http://www.gtk.org/">
+ http://www.gtk.org/</ulink>. A
+ packaged version of the GTK Tutorial, with SGML, HTML,
+ Postscript, DVI and text versions can be found in <ulink
+ url="ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/tutorial">ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/tutorial
+ </ulink></para>
+ <para>There are now a couple of books available that deal with
+ programming GTK+, GDK and GNOME:</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><simpara>Eric Harlows book entitled "Developing
+ Linux Applications with GTK+ and GDK". The ISBN is 0-7357-0021-4</simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem><simpara>The example code from Eric's book is
+ available on-line at <ulink
+ url="http://www.bcpl.net/~eharlow/book">
+ http://www.bcpl.net/~eharlow/book</ulink></simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem><simpara>Havoc Pennington has released a book called
+ "GTK+/GNOME Application Development". The ISBN is 0-7357-0078-8</simpara>
+ <simpara>The free version of the book lives here: <ulink
+ url="http://developer.gnome.org/doc/GGAD/">http://developer.gnome.org/doc/GGAD/
+ </ulink></simpara>
+ <simpara>And Havoc maintains information about it and
+ errata here: <ulink
+ url="http://pobox.com/~hp/gnome-app-devel.html">http://pobox.com/~hp/gnome-app-devel.html
+ </ulink></simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <!-- ----------------------------------------------------------------- -->
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Is there a mailing list (or mailing list archive) for
+ GTK+?</title>
+ <para>Information on mailing lists relating to GTK+ can be
+ found at: <ulink
+ url="http://www.gtk.org/mailinglists.html">http://www.gtk.org/mailinglists.html
+ </ulink></para>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <!-- ----------------------------------------------------------------- -->
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>How to get help with GTK+</title>
+ <para>First, make sure your question isn't answered in the
+ documentation, this FAQ or the tutorial. Done that? You're
+ sure you've done that, right? In that case, the best place to
+ post questions is to the GTK+ mailing list.</para>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <!-- ----------------------------------------------------------------- -->
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>How to report bugs in GTK+</title>
+ <para>Bugs should be reported to the GNOME bug tracking system
+ (<ulink
+ url="http://bugs.gnome.org">http://bugs.gnome.org</ulink>). To
+ report a problem about GTK+, send mail to submit@bugs.gnome.org.</para>
+ <para>The subject of the mail should describe your problem. In
+ the body of the mail, you should first include a
+ "pseudo-header" that gives the package and version
+ number. This should be separated by a blank line from the
+ actual headers.</para>
+
+ <para><literallayout><literal>Package: gtk+</literal>
+ <literal>Version: 1.2.0</literal></literallayout></para>
+
+ <para>Substitute 1.2.0 with the version of GTK+ that you have installed.</para>
+ <para>Then describe the bug. Include:</para>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><simpara> Information about your system. For instance:</simpara>
+ <itemizedlist spacing=compact>
+ <listitem><simpara> What operating system and version</simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem><simpara> What version of X</simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem><simpara> For Linux, what version of the C library</simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ <para>And anything else you think is relevant.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem><simpara> How to reproduce the bug.</simpara>
+ <simpara>If you can reproduce it with the testgtk program
+ that is built in the gtk/ subdirectory, that will be most
+ convenient. Otherwise, please include a short test program
+ that exhibits the behavior. As a last resort, you can also
+ provide a pointer to a larger piece of software that can
+ be downloaded.</simpara>
+ <simpara>(Bugs that can be reproduced within the GIMP are
+ almost as good as bugs that can be reproduced in
+ testgtk. If you are reporting a bug found with the GIMP,
+ please include the version number of the GIMP you are
+ using)</simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem><simpara> If the bug was a crash, the exact text that was
+ printed out when the crash occured.</simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem><simpara> Further information such as stack traces
+ may be useful, but are not necessary. If you do send a stack trace,
+ and the error is an X error, it will be more useful if the stacktrace is produced running
+ the test program with the <literal>--sync</literal> command line option.</simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <!-- ----------------------------------------------------------------- -->
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Is there a Windows version of GTK+?</title>
+ <para>There is an on going port of GTK+ to the Windows
+ platform which is making impressive progress.</para>
+ <para>See <ulink
+ url="http://www.iki.fi/tml/gimp/win32">http://www.iki.fi/tml/gimp/win32</ulink>
+ for more information.</para>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <!-- ----------------------------------------------------------------- -->
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>What applications have been written with GTK+?</title>
+ <para></para>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <!-- ----------------------------------------------------------------- -->
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>I'm looking for an application to write in GTK+. How
+ about an IRC client?</title>
+ <para>Ask on gtk-list for suggestions. There are at least
+ three IRC clients already under development (probably more in fact. The server at
+ <ulink url="http://www.forcix.cx/irc-clients.html">
+ http://www.forcix.cx/irc-clients.html</ulink> list a bunch of them).</para>
+
+ <itemizedlist spacing=compact>
+ <listitem><simpara> X-Chat.</simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem><simpara> girc. (Included with GNOME)</simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem><simpara> gsirc. (In the gnome CVS tree)</simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </sect2>
+
+
+ </sect1>
+ </chapter>
+ <!-- ----------------------------------------------------------------- -->
+
+ <appendix>
+ <title>Remaining details</title>
+ <para>Although this booklet is quite complete, here I will
+mention some details I never got to.</para>
+ <sect1>
+ <title>Use of the word dude</title>
+ <para>Here's an example of how to say
+<emphasis>dude</emphasis>: DUDE.</para>
+ </sect1>
+ </appendix>
+</book>
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