Developers - GNOME Developer Center

Overview

Overview of the GNOME Platform [more versions, languages, or options...]

Overview of the powerful technologies inside the GNOME platform.

Development Guides

GNOME Accessibility Developers Guide [more versions, languages, or options...]

The GNOME Accessibility Guide is for developers who want to ensure their programming efforts are accessible to the widest audience of users. This guide also covers many of the Section 508 requirements.

GNOME Developer Platform Demos [more versions, languages, or options...]

GNOME Human Interface Guidelines 2.2.2 [more versions, languages, or options...]

This document tells you how to create applications that look right, behave properly, and fit into the GNOME user interface as a whole. It is written for interface designers, graphic artists and software developers who will be creating software for the GNOME environment. Both specific advice on making effective use of interface elements, and the philosophy and general design principles behind the GNOME interface are covered.

Integrating existing software with GNOME [more versions, languages, or options...]

Guide for Independent Software Vendors

libsigc++ Tutorial [more versions, languages, or options...]

libxml++ Tutorial [more versions, languages, or options...]

Optimizing GNOME Software [more versions, languages, or options...]

Software can be optimized in many ways: for speed, program size, or memory use. This section contains guides and tutorials for optimizing your software.

Porting applications to use DConf proxy settings

Programming with gtkmm 3 [more versions, languages, or options...]

This book explains key concepts of the gtkmm C++ API for creating user interfaces. It also introduces the main user interface elements ("widgets").

Understanding Metacity Themes [more versions, languages, or options...]

We very much appreciate any reports of inaccuracies or other errors in this document. Contributions are also most welcome. Post your suggestions, critiques or addenda to the team.

Tutorials

GTK+ 2.0 Tutorial [more versions, languages, or options...]
GTK+ Programming Tutorial [external resource]: This GTK+ tutorial is written for the C programming language. It is suitable for beginners and intermediate programmers.
Writing new-style modules for Deskbar-Applet [external resource]: An introduction to the new module interface of GNOME Deskbar-Applet.

Frequently Asked Questions

GTK+ FAQ [more versions, languages, or options...]

GNOME Documentation Project

GNOME Documentation Build Utilities [more versions, languages, or options...]: The GNOME Documentation Build Utilities were created to make it easier for application developers to include and create documentation in their releases.
GNOME Documentation Style Guide V1.6 [more versions, languages, or options...]: Style guidelines for documentation and user interfaces.
GNOME Documentation XSLT Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]: The GNOME Documentation XSLT stylesheets were created to provide fast DocBook to HTML conversion for real-time document viewing in GNOME's help browser, Yelp.
GNOME Handbook of Writing Software Documentation V1.0.2 [more versions, languages, or options...]: Instructions and guidelines on writing documentation for software.