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GTK+/Gnome Application Development
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Author: Havoc Pennington
List Price: $39.99
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ISBN: 0735700788
Publisher: Que (19 August, 1999)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 42,000
Average Customer Rating: 3.83 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 2 out of 5
Dissapointing
I bought this book hoping it would dilute the muck about linux GUI programming... Unfortunately, I found this to be very topical with a lot of the base of GTK. I can see this as more of a desktop reference rather than a intro/guide. I don't suggest buying this book if you don't already know a lot of GTK basics.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Waste of time and money
This book is almost unuseable. Most of its pages seem to be fragments from various GTK+/Gnome header files with only rudimentary explanations. It does not answer most GTK+/Gnome beginners questions, even if they are experienced programmers.For example I wanted to call a file selection dialog. The index has one reference to GtkFileSelection, which consists of a screen shot and another reference to the corresponding #include file for this widget. That's it. The #include file contains several functions, none of them are explained or even mentioned in the book (at least I could not find them in the index). I'm afraid I have to buy another book to get my job done.
Rating: 2 out of 5
A bit of a disappointment.
I suppose this is another example of why the people who actually write a piece of software shouldn't handle its documentation. This is a somewhat haphazard reference to GTK+; it doesn't have nearly enough information to act as a tutorial, even to an experienced C programmer, and yet it's not complete enough to act as a reference guide either. Like most hacker's documentation, this is far from clear and complete; it seems geared towards people who are willing to fill in the blanks in the text themselves through reading source code or online docs. Of course, if you need to do that, why bother purchasing the book in the first place? Just read the online docs. I wish I could suggest this book, as it is an "open source" manual, but there's better material out there.
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