Introduce a Desktop section

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Introduce a Desktop section

[jackorp]

Hi, yes, I'd guess something of the sort, though this project is developer focused and mostly focused on answering the question "I have Fedora, How do I develop with {$LANGUAGE,$DATABASE,$WEB_FRAMEWORK,...}" so not sure how do you imagine LibreOffice fitting into this scheme, but I am open for suggestions. For web browsers we have "Web Application" section.

I imagine that starting a GUI development project can cover pygame/godot project.

I'd personally more imagine something GTK related with e.g. GNOME builder, or QT development with their SDKs.

[phracek]

well It's a nice idea. On the workshop OpenAlt2015 I have heard about Gnome-Builder.

Are you able to provide a some notes or even the whole structure?

[felipeborges]

I would suggest having a Desktop section, and under it a Gtk+ and a Qt subsections.

For instance, In the Gtk+ section I would have a main article describing the toolkit and the interesting utils for Gtk development, such as: GNOME Builder, Devhelp, gtk3-demo. After that I would link to specific articles for writing a "Hello World" application in a language of your choice: gjs, pygi (python + gobject introspection), vala, C/C++, etc.. In the end of each article we could link to the upstream documentation which is more complete and less platform specific. Someone from the Qt side of the force could write something similar.

If you give me an ACK for that, I could start working in a pull request for it.

[strzibny]

That would be really nice!

[phracek]

What languages do you prefer to use? C/C++ or Python? Or both?

[phracek]

This is awesome. Go ahead. We need more GUI:)

[phracek]

I have created a DevAssistant GUI a long time ago with pygi too.

[asamalik]

@felipeborges I have marked this as 'in progress' because you have started to work on it. Is that ok?

[felipeborges]

@asamalik sure. More articles to come!

[vishnuavenu]

Can't We use Node environment in gnome apps development ?

[strzibny]

I guess prefered lang is Vala at this moment but many others are supported. I think it is fine to introduce all runtimes/envs that are primarily supported by Gnome.

[mrennekamp]

Hi, I suppose this should be multi-page like the Web Applications docs are. Should the intro page cover the basic process of GUI programming, such as game development (pygame/godot) and common everyday software (web browsers, LibreOffice)?

[strzibny]

Yeah... I agree that the focus should be on building on Fedora (not necessarily just for Fedora, though).