Electronic Artistry with GIMP - Wednesday 18th JuneThe GNOME Foundation are pleased to announce the first set of tutorials to be held at GU4DEC in June.
Electronic Artistry with GIMP - Wednesday 18th JuneThe GIMP has been the spawn of GNOME and the GTK+ toolkit. It was one of the first user-targeted applications on the linux desktop. Today GNOME has matured into an advanced desktop, perfectly suitable for office enviroments as well as graphics and web publishing.
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The workshop will give the audience a possibility to try everything themselves as the tutors will walk everyone through numerous real-life examples.
Tuomas Kuosmanen and Jakub Steiner are both long-time GIMP users and professional artists. They are responsible for the numerous graphic elements of the GNOME 2 desktop, such as the icons, splash screens, application window decorations and color schemes. They both work for Ximian, Inc. -- a company that develops software and services for the GNOME desktop.
This tutorial covers the essential concepts needed to become an effective programmer with GTK+ user interface toolkit.
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Attendees are expected to have a familiarity with C. No prior experience in GTK+ or GNOME programming is needed.
Owen Taylor is the designer of the Pango text layout library and has been co-maintainer of GTK+ for over five years, working on such areas as the GDK layer, DND, themes, and internationalization. He also has a strong interest in language bindings and component technology, as represented by the CORBA::ORBit Perl bindings for CORBA. With an educational background in Physics, Owen joined Red Hat in 1998 to work on GTK+ and GNOME.