"One of the most frequently asked questions in the GTK mailing lists is 'How do I use threads with GTK'. Actually, the question is more often 'I’ve started writing a GTK program, and it doesn’t work. What the hell?' and it quickly emerges that they’re trying to do a multi-threaded GTK app, and doing it wrong."

Jokosher developer Jono Bacon has written an extensive < http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=750 introduction > to the GStreamer Python bindings. This is a great read for developers that are interested in making Linux multimedia applications with Python. It's well written and requires no prior GStreamer experience.

Some preliminary plans for GTK 2.12 that were initially discussed at GUADEC have now been < http://www.gtk.org/plan/meetings/20060625.txt published >. Plans include integrating libglade into GTK, integrating Maemo patches, and integrating features like entry icons from libsexy.