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10.3. GUI Reference documents
Although the GUI development of Wireshark is platform independent, the Wireshark development
team tries to follow the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) where appropriate. This is the
case, because both GNOME and Wireshark are based on the GTK+ toolkit and the GNOME HIG is
excellently written and easy to understand.
For further reference, see the following documents:
• GNOME Human Interface Guidelines at: http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/
• KDE user interface related documents at: http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/ui.html
• Win32 XXX - where are good Win32 styleguides available?
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