GNOME Developer Documentation

See our Documentation Library" for development guides, API reference, and manuals for developer tools.

You should start with our Overview of the GNOME Platform. This presents a high-level overview of the different pieces of the GNOME Platform: libraries to write user interfaces, to integrate with the desktop, to do inter-process communication, use the virtual file system, provide accessibility, and multimedia.

Those areas are listed below with descriptions of what they contain..

White Papers: Papers giving a general overview of one particular technology
Programming Guides: In-depth, detailed descriptions of the GNOME architecture; documentation that tie the elements together and includes examples.
API Reference: Straight reference documentation for the GNOME API
Standards: Standards used for creating GNOME Applications

One can also find some useful books available on the Books page.