[pygtk] Writing a PyGTK book

[Karl Ostmo]

Someone seems to have started a PyGTK book on WikiBooks, but there is not
much content there.
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/PyGTK_For_GUI_Programming

Maybe that would be a good starting point for collaboration?

Karl

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Peter Gill <peter.m.gill at gmail.com> wrote:

> Currently as far as I know there are no books on PyGTK.  So this
> summer I decided to put some of my notes together in an attempt to
> start a book.  However I am not a very good writer and my knowledge of
> PyGTK is not at an expert level.  The reason I would like a book on
> PyGTK and related technologies is actually a selfish one.  I wish to
> have one location that I can turn to and be sure of finding an answer.
>  I do not want to forget how I did something or how something worked
> and not be able to remember the website I found the answers on.
>
> I have written a few chapters so far, such as using PyGTK with
> GStreamer, cairo, dbus, and embedding Mozilla or internet explorer.  I
> am trying to keep the examples platform agnostic so they will work on
> at least Linux and Windows.  However the main focus is on Linux
> development, but if the examples can be made to work on Windows I make
> sure they do.
>
> What is currently needed are chapters that focus on PyGTK itself, such
> as chapters that introduce PyGTK and more advanced chapters that focus
> on particular areas. As well as lots of review and editing.
>
> The license I plan on using is the creative commons Attribution-Share
> Alike 2.5 license.
>
> At the moment the book is in rough shape and in need of much editing.
> I would like to finish this book myself but I do not have the skills
> or knowledge to do this myself. So if you are willing to help with
> editing and/or contributing to needed sections and chapters, please
> contact me. What I already have written can be found at the link
> below.
>
> http://majorsilence.com/rubbish/pygtk-book/
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