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Guardian-Mage
March 9th, 2008, 03:02 AM
What the hell is up with this. Every tutorial or piece of documentation related to writing Gnome-Panel Applets in Python (Or any language) are from 2004 or earlier. This means that NOTHING WORKS. All the libraries have been updated, new packages releases, and many commands replaced. None of the examples work, and I don't know where to start. Does anybody here know a good place with up-to-date tutorials on programming Gnome-Applets in Python?
Acglaphotis
March 9th, 2008, 03:27 AM
The best advice in this cases are reading pieces of code of already working programs, and learning how they work and how to implement what you want. Then make the tutorial of how to do it so people wont have to go through the same as you did.
xlinuks
March 9th, 2008, 09:00 AM
Not sure if this could help
Writing new-style modules for Deskbar-Applet (python, march 2008 )
http://www.k-d-w.org/deskbar/new-style_modules.html
lnostdal
March 9th, 2008, 09:25 AM
The best advice in this cases are reading pieces of code of already working programs, and learning how they work and how to implement what you want. Then make the tutorial of how to do it so people wont have to go through the same as you did.

oh, and then add some google ads ==> profit

=)
The Titan
March 9th, 2008, 12:05 PM
i don't think they are dead now, i just think they call themselves authors. Books are the best tutorials that there are.
Jessehk
March 9th, 2008, 03:58 PM
Books are the best tutorials that there are.

Are there any books on Python Gnome Development? The only recent Gnome development book I know of is this (http://www.gtkbook.com) one, and it focuses on C.

At the moment, Gnome is far more usable and stable than KDE, but KDE has the technological base and documentation that IMHO, provides a much stronger foundation.
Acglaphotis
March 9th, 2008, 04:58 PM
Are there any books on Python Gnome Development? The only recent Gnome development book I know of is this (http://www.gtkbook.com) one, and it focuses on C.

At the moment, Gnome is far more usable and stable than KDE, but KDE has the technological base and documentation that IMHO, provides a much stronger foundation.

Thats gonna start a flamewar.

But i agree that recent documentation about python + gnome is scarce.