How to reorder this big list and this one so that it makes sense from the perspective of an app developer who doesn't know what all this is

• Stuff many people need to write apps

  • GTK
  • GIO
  • GSettings
  • JSON-GLib
  • WebKitGTK

• Platform stuff that you'll use

  • GObject
  • GLib

• Stuff you might need — for particular functionality

  • Various desktop features

    • gspell
    • Secret
    • Folks
    • Peas

  • Online services and APIs

    • Soup
    • Rest
    • GData
    • Zapojit

  • Database access

    • GDA
    • Glom

  • Particular file formats

    • Poppler
    • libxml2

  • Audio/Video

    • Gstreamer

  • Geographical

    • Champlain
    • Geoclue2
    • Geocode-GLib

• You're unlikely to need this — unless you know you do

  • Avahi
  • GUPnP
  • Rygel
  • GSSDP
  • GSF
  • GXPS

• Plumbing — app authors might need, but only if doing something low-level

  • GDK
  • Cairo
  • Pango
  • Tracker

  • NetworkManager

  • Enchant

  • PackageKit

  • Telepathy
  • Canberra

  • PulseAudio

  • PolKit

  • GdkPixbuf

  • libxslt
  • dconf

• You don't need this — deprecated or really low-level

  • Notify
  • Clutter
  • DBus
  • dconf

1. Comments

(SébastienWilmet) I have replaced GtkSpell by gspell. The maintainer of GtkSpell plans to deprecate it in favor of gspell (see this mail thread).

(JohnMcHugh) Should GObject Introspection be listed?