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Contribute
There are different ways in which you can contribute to xfce:
- Translation - Translate Xfce Applications into different languages.
- Documentation - add or translate application manuals on this website.
- Bugs - report or fix Xfce bugs, provide new features
- Bountysource - Put some money on bugs you want to have fixed
- as well possible to put a general donation
Once you did some contributions, you may want to grab extra permissions to e.g. release your modifications:
- becoming a xfce-developer - contributor account, git access, releases
API documentation
Library references can be found in the releases: garcon, exo, libxfce4ui, libxfce4util, thunar, xfconf. They are often also installed by distributions in /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/.
Additionally, Xfce uses the GTK+/Glib family of libraries which can be found at the following:
Tutorials for getting started with GTK+ are available at:
If you're looking at writing a panel plugin, you may want to look at the xfce4-sample-plugin for an easy start.