Slowly with Ubuntu Quickly

Ubuntu is running an app development competition these days.

It was an great motivation for me to try to put together something stupid simple in Ubuntu Quickly, but I failed. I didn't have enough spare time to learn enough, fast enough. Even though they made some very instructive videos.

"Quikcly", you say?
Quickly is an amazing, yet simple tool. With a few commands in the terminal, you'll have a fully functional app to fool around with. Although a word of caution:  With the desktop template, the water gets pretty deep, pretty fast.

By default it uses tools that aren't daunting for an amateur (Eclipse still scares me, Emacs still evades me): Python, Glade, Gedit. But I think that these are default, so you should be able to alter Quickly to use other tools.

A little help with the help.
Quickly works like this: Simply write these lines in the terminal, and you'll have an app to play with. That's when we cross over to the deep end: GTK.

Suddenly Quickly lets go of your hand, and takes a step back. I was lost.

What files could I alter? Which should I not alter? Yes, quickly edit opens some - but does that mean I shouldn't touch the rest? And what does the code that was in the files mean? What do the different files do?

How does the inner workings of a GTK-app function? For instance: Where is the code that descripes what happens when I click on "About" in the app? How is the user interface tied together with the code?

Google helps some. The tutorial helps some.

Quickly seems to be meant for both the pro and the amateur scripter. There are tutorials and descriptions of some pretty basic stuff. It's also obvious that Quickly first and foremost scrathced a developers itch: To get started faster.

What exists of help for beginners is so far too scattered, too fragmented. There's some help in the command line, some in the tutorial, some in the wiki, some at developer.ubuntu.com, some on DidRocks blog. And for a lot they simply send you to the webpages of the tools themselves: Bazar, GTK, Glade.

Summarized
I really like it. It's not Visual Studio, but it's simple and it's free. I would like to have a little bit more help after typing quickly create ubuntu-application. The tutorial showes me what I could do, but not how where to find help for what I'd like to do.