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GNOME 3 Application Development Beginner's Guide

By Mohammad Anwari
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  1. Installing GNOME 3 and SDK
    • Installing GNOME 3 and SDK
    • System requirements
    • GNOME 3 desktop architecture
    • GNOME and the SDK
    • Time for action – installing GNOME and SDK in Fedora 17
    • Time for action – installing GNOME and SDK in openSUSE 12
    • Time for action – installing GNOME and SDK in Debian Testing
    • Time for action – installing GNOME and SDK in Ubuntu 12.04
    • Summary
    • Preparing Our Weapons
    • Firing up Anjuta
    • Time for action – creating a new Vala project
    • Navigation between tabs
    • Time for action – navigating between tabs
    • Comment block
    • Time for action – commenting/uncommenting a block
    • Time for action – running the program for the first time
    • Editing UI
    • Time for action – editing UI
    • Time for action – adding a label and a button
    • Time for action – changing widget properties
    • A responsive button
    • Time for action – making the button responsive
    • Tracking symbols
    • Time for action – finding a symbol
    • Getting help
    • Summary
    • Programming Languages
    • Programming GNOME with JavaScript
    • Time for action – saying hello to Seed
    • Time for action – running our program with Seed
    • Time for action – playing with data types
    • Time for action – controlling Iteration
    • Time for action – manipulating an array
    • Time for action – using the JavaScript object
    • Time for action – playing with constructors
    • Time for action – adding prototypes
    • Time for action – modifying the prototype of an object
    • Time for action – modularizing our program
    • Getting to know Vala
    • Time for action – entry point to our program
    • Time for action – defining member access
    • Time for action – experiment with data types
    • Time for action – adding the Gee library
    • Time for action – Gee in action
    • Time for action – watching for signals
    • Summary
    • Using GNOME Core Libraries
    • Before we start
    • The GLib main loop
    • Time for action – playing with the GLib main loop
    • GObject signals
    • Time for action – handling GObject signals
    • GLib properties
    • Time for action – accessing properties
    • Configuration files
    • Time for action – reading configuration files
    • GIO, the input/output library
    • Time for action – accessing files
    • Network access with GIO
    • Time for action – accessing a network
    • Understanding GSettings
    • Time for action – learning GSettings
    • GSettings API
    • Time for action – accessing GSettings programmatically
    • Summary
    • Building Graphical User Interface Applications
    • Before we start
    • Creating a basic GTK+ application
    • Time for action – implementing the mockup
    • Time for action – adding icons to the buttons
    • Porting the code without GtkBuilder
    • Time for action – programming with raw GTK+
    • GUI programming with Clutter
    • Time for action – implementing the mockup with Clutter
    • Summary
    • Creating Widgets
    • Before we take off
    • Overriding the widget's standard functions
    • Time for action – overriding the set_title function
    • Adding new functionalities
    • Time for action – making a composite widget
    • Maintaining compatibility
    • Implementing a GTK+ custom widget
    • Time for action – implementing the custom widget
    • Maintaining widgets in a library
    • Time for action – creating a library
    • Summary
    • Having Fun with Multimedia
    • Packages required
    • Understanding the basic concept of GStreamer
    • Accessing the GStreamer pipeline with the command line
    • Time for action – testing the pipeline
    • Time for action – programmatically playing the audio
    • Time for action – handling the events
    • Playing a video media
    • Time for action – playing video
    • Time for action – programmatically playing the video
    • Summary
    • Playing with Data
    • Presenting data with TreeView
    • Time for action – using TreeView
    • The Evolution Data Server (EDS) architecture
    • Time for action – setting up the address book and the calendar data source
    • Time for action – accessing the address book
    • Have a go hero – saving data to the address book
    • Summary
    • Deploying HTML5 Applications with GNOME
    • Before we start
    • Embedding WebKit
    • Time for action – embedding WebKit
    • Runtime with JavaScriptCore
    • Time for action – calling the Vala object from the frontend
    • Time for action – connecting GNOME with client-side JavaScript
    • Summary
    • Desktop Integration
    • Talking to each other with D-Bus
    • Time for action – listening to D-Bus
    • The GNOME session manager
    • Time for action – talking to the session manager
    • Launcher
    • Time for action – putting our application in the launcher
    • GNOME keyring
    • Time for action – storing passwords securely
    • Notification system
    • Time for action – sending notifications
    • Summary
    • Making Our Applications Go International
    • Understanding locale
    • Time for action – getting the available locales
    • Time for action – adding a locale
    • Time for action – getting different outputs with different locales
    • i18n in a Vala project
    • Time for action – bootstrapping the infrastructure
    • Time for action – creating a UI
    • Time for action – translating UI texts
    • The localization process
    • Summary
    • Quality Made Easy
    • Reasons for performing unit testing
    • Time for action – creating our first unit test
    • Time for action – creating stubs
    • Testing GUI modules
    • Time for action – testing a GTK+ module
    • Summary
    • Exciting Projects
    • Part I – web browser
    • Time for action – designing our UI
    • Time for action – preparing the build infrastructure
    • Time for action – finishing up
    • Part II – A Twitter client
    • Time for action – implementing the Twitter client
    • Summary
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