GNOME 3 Application Development Beginner's Guide

This book is a step-by-step guide with ready-to-run codes to guide you in developing applications with GNOME. If you have programming skill either in Linux or other operating systems and want to have GNOME 3 as one of your deployment targets, then this book is for you. This book is also for commercial software developers or an open source software hacker. The reader needs to be familiar with Vala and JavaScript before starting to develop Gtk+ and Clutter applications.

Table of Contents; GNOME 3 Application Development Beginner's Guide; GNOME 3 Application Development Beginner's Guide; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more; Why Subscribe?; Free Access for Packt account holders; Preface; What this book covers; What you need for this book; Who this book is for; Conventions; Time for action -- heading; What just happened?; Pop quiz -- heading; Have a go hero -- heading; Reader feedback; Customer support; Downloading the example code; Errata; Piracy; Questions.

1. Installing GNOME 3 and SDKSystem requirements; The GNOME Shell; GNOME Panel/Fallback; Development requirements; GNOME 3 desktop architecture; GNOME and the SDK; Time for action -- installing GNOME and SDK in Fedora 17; What just happened?; Marking packages to be installed; Ready to install the packages; Time for action -- installing GNOME and SDK in openSUSE 12; What just happened?; Marking SDK packages; Starting the installation; Time for action -- installing GNOME and SDK in Debian Testing; What just happened?; Marking SDK packages; Applying the installation.

Time for action -- installing GNOME and SDK in Ubunt…