diff --git a/docs/reference/ChangeLog b/docs/reference/ChangeLog
index 64f476c4e..afd8929af 100644
--- a/docs/reference/ChangeLog
+++ b/docs/reference/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+Sat Oct 18 00:04:22 2003  Matthias Clasen  <maclas@gmx.de>
+
+	* gobject/gobject.types: List GObject here, since the
+	documentation misses the notify signal otherwise. Needs
+	a little bit of a hack to work around a gtkdoc-scangobj
+	limitation, see the comment in gobject/gobject.i.
+
+	* gobject/gobject.i: New file, containing a trivial 
+	g_object_get_type() function.
+	
 Fri Oct 17 00:23:51 2003  Matthias Clasen  <maclas@gmx.de>
 
 	* gobject/Makefile.am (GTKDOC_LIBS): 
diff --git a/docs/reference/gobject/gobject.i b/docs/reference/gobject/gobject.i
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2976940e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/reference/gobject/gobject.i
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+/*
+ * This is a hack to work around a limitation of gtkdoc-scan: it insists
+ * on putting () behind every symbol listed in gobject.types. Thus we
+ * can't put G_TYPE_OBJECT there, but have to sneak a g_object_get_type()
+ * function in the generated source via an #include.
+ */
+GType 
+g_object_get_type (void)
+{
+  return G_TYPE_OBJECT;
+}
diff --git a/docs/reference/gobject/gobject.types b/docs/reference/gobject/gobject.types
index 65244ed03..40f079ce7 100644
--- a/docs/reference/gobject/gobject.types
+++ b/docs/reference/gobject/gobject.types
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 #include <glib/glib-object.h>
+#include "gobject.i"
 
+g_object_get_type
 g_type_module_get_type
 g_type_plugin_get_type