GNOME Developer Documentation#
Welcome to the GNOME platform! This documentation provides essential information and resources for those developing software with and for the GNOME platform. It is also a portal to other sources of GNOME developer documentation that are available elsewhere.
Content overview#
The documentation on this site is organized into three main sections:
Platform introduction: an introduction to the GNOME platform. This describes the main platform components, development tools and programming languages that can be used.
Guidelines: detailed development information, including programming and integration guidelines.
Tutorials: shorter pages on common topics, with step-by-step instructions.
See also
Older guides and API references that used to be hosted on developer.gnome.org are now archived on a separate website.
Additional resources#
Additional external development resources for the GNOME platform include:
GNOME Human Interface Guidelines: user experience design guidelines
Discussion forums: a great place to ask for help and advice
Platform tools#
The following tools are used by the GNOME platform and have their own websites and documentation:
Tool |
Role |
Documentation |
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GNOME platform IDE |
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App packaging and distribution |
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Build system |
Contributing#
If you want to contribute to the GNOME developer documentation, you can find it on GitLab.