GTK+ Internals Guide

Topics Brainstorming

Which topics would you like this guide to cover?

• Geometry/Size Management (size-request, size-allocate, containers & children)

• Drawing Model (http://primates.ximian.com/~federico/misc/gtk-drawing-model/index.html

• Theming (http://live.gnome.org/GnomeArt/Tutorials/GtkThemes)

• Widget

  • signals: Almost none of the many GtkWidget signals and vfuncs are (gtk-doc) documented. When are they emitted, for what reason, in what sequence, with what effect?

  • GtkObject? Life Cycle

• NO_WINDOW widgets, widgets with several subwindows

• Why is GObject the way it is? (rationale for the design -> bindings?)

• Best practices to write a widget from scratch
• A section for each stock widget with their own quirks and special cases?