Guides

Overview

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

Overview of the powerful technologies inside the GNOME platform.

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

Guide for Independent Software Vendors

Guidelines

Accessibility for Developers [external resource]

This document tells you how to make GNOME applications accessible.

GNOME Human Interface Guidelines 2.0 [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.

Tutorials

GTK+ 2.0 Tutorial [more versions, languages, or options...]

See also: documentation on development version

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...]

See also: documentation on development version

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.

See also: documentation on development version

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.

See also: documentation on development version

GNOME Handbook of Writing Software Documentation V1.0.2 [more versions, languages, or options...]

Instructions and guidelines on writing documentation for software.

White Papers

Nautilus Internals [external resource]

Nautilus is the official file manager and desktop shell for the GNOME desktop. This paper gives an overview of the design and implementation of Nautilus and some parts of the GNOME platform that it relies on. It also has concrete pointers to interesting parts of the sources for developers who wish to hack on Nautilus, or just learn more about it. This paper requires a basic understanding of how Nautilus works from the user side, and basic knowledge of GNOME programming.