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+/** \mainpage
+
+<h2>Overview</h2>
+
+This is a list of documents to start with:
+
+<ul>
+<li> \ref lout
+<li> \ref dw-overview (map at \ref dw-map)
+</ul>
+
+Currently, a document \ref fltk-problems is maintained, ideally, it
+will be removed soon.
+
+<h2>Historical</h2>
+
+<h3>Replacements for GTK+ and GLib</h3>
+
+There are several classes etc., which are used for tasks formerly (in the GTK+
+version of dillo) achieved by GtkObject (in 1.2.x, this is part of Gtk+) and
+GLib. For an overview on all this, take a look at \ref lout.
+
+GtkObject is replaced by the following:
+
+<ul>
+<li> lout::object::Object is a common base class for many classes used
+     dillo. In the namespace lout::object, there are also some more common
+     classes and interfaces.
+
+<li> A sub class of lout::object::Object is
+     lout::identity::IdentifiableObject, which allows to determine the
+     class at run-time (equivalent to GTK_CHECK_CAST in GtkObject).
+
+<li> For signals, there is the namespace lout::signal.
+</ul>
+
+Hash tables, linked lists etc. can be found in the lout::container namespace,
+several useful macros from GLib have been implemented as inline functions
+in the lout::misc namespace.
+
+As an alternative to the macros defined in list.h, there is also a template
+class, lout::misc::SimpleVector, which does the same.
+
+<h3>Changes in Dw</h3>
+
+If you have been familiar with Dw before, take a look at \ref dw-changes.
+
+*/