Hello all,
Thank you for all your replies. But I must say I'm *seriously* disappointed with most of what you guys replied with.
Next to nothing was put forward in direct relation to the posted question, and most all the replies where brush-offs in the form of "just do something" and "go read (everything) first".
FYI: The whole shebang turns out to be 2 rather small steps: retrieving the required package and making a small adjustment to geany (so it knows where the downloaded-and-installed stuff is).
But, even thoug I *specifically mentioned* that I'm a novice on the RP and Linux: Noone thought of mentioning what the name of needed package was*. Noone thought of mentioning how to retrieve it. Noone thought of mentioning which changes needs to be made.
*I also had to make, based on next-to-nothing, a guess for that. Luckily I guessed right.Has anyone here *ever* installed GTK ? Or am I the very first ? Not likely, but as noone seems to know what needed to be done (other than in a general, vage sense) it sure looks like it ...
Several suggestions where made to do something, but when I asked with which program I could use and what I than needed to tell it I again-and-again got a cold shoulder: "go read the documentation".
How for gods sake ! I did not even know which program I was supposed to use, and nobody was willing to tell me ...
It also didn't help that phrases like "framework" where thrown around without being explained - and even than the meaning of them did seem to vary with the responder.
Pretty much the only straight(ish)-forward answer I've gotten is that "it would probably be a good idea" to use GTK - and even for that answer I had to battle me thru a series of "figure it out for yourself" responses.
That, and, after I had googled for myself how I could (possibly) retrieve a package, tried it and mentioned that it failed, an "but haven't you first done an 'apt-get update' first ?" reply (which I than googled and found out what it was for and that it would be a good idea to use before *any* package retrieval).
I seriously hope *none* of you guys (with an exception or two) ever gets in a teaching position, as you would effectivily kill any fun a student could possibly have in trying to learn new stuff. :-(
In the end I was, using GTK and together with quite a number of possibly related keywords, able to find bits-and-parts all over the web which, stiched together, gave me the above-mentioned two-step solution. So thank you for pretty-much nothing.
And for all those links I've been offered ? I don't think you guys realized that most of those where USELESS until I got that GTK development stuff installed. Which, from my POV, you guys effectivily refused to help with.
I guess the above isn't going to make me popular here. But if noone says it you guys *will* be harming more newbies, possibly even pushing them away from something that *should* be a lot of fun to use. That, and now I can try to release my indignation towards how you guys think you should be treating a novice - one with a rather simple, straight-forward question.
... Or was all of it just some kind of group-trolling ? Maybe a kind of hazing of new "members" ? In either case, change it. Its not funny. Not by a long shot.
Regards, Rudy Wieser