The Official GNOME 2 Developer's Guide -- Reviews

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“As an overview of the Gnome / GTK platform, this book is great.”
--Pensacola Linux User's Group, June 16, 2005 (Full review)

"A pretty heavy duty programming book... [The Official GNOME 2 Developer's Guide] does what it sets out to do."
--Books-on-Line, March 23, 2005 (Full review)

Install Linux and the chances are you’ll be given the choice between a GNOME or KDE desktop. GNOME is the better known of the two, but if you want to development applications that use the GNOME environment where do you start? Well a good place would be...The Official GNOME 2 Developers Guide.
--LinuxWorld, Q&A with Matthias Warkus, March 12, 2005 (Read interview)

"An 'information-dense,' text that is particularly well-written."
--PC Update, Melbourne (Australia) PC User Group, September 2004

"Assuming a familiarity with C and Unix programming, this book introduces the GNOME platform as a tool for building graphical user interfaces. Warkus, who helped produce the German localization of GNOME, describes GLib data structures and utility functions, GObject classes and properties, GTK+ widgets and containers, and the GNOME libraries."
--SciTech Book News

"I would truly suggest this book to developers who have good experience with C"
--OSNews.com (Full review)

"...required reading for all developers wanting to gain familiarity and expertise with GNOME"
--HostingResolve.com (Full review)

"...a very good intro to Gnome GUI development"
--APLawrence.com (Full review)

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