GNOME User Docs (gnome-user-docs) is an open source and freely distributed package that contains comprehensive documentation for all users of the GNOME desktop environment, including manual pages for numerous GNOME-related applications, displayed to users via the GNOME Help app.
Shipped with GNOME
The gnome-user-docs package is comprised of many documents, and it is shipped in the core GNOME distribution. They are mainly targeted for end-users of the GNOME desktop environment and have general GNOME applicability. The documentation is accompanied by images in order to help users understand better various functions of the respective applications.
Can be accessed through the F1 key
The GNOME Documentation Project (GDP) is responsible for the documentation included in the gnome-user-docs package. Users can access the documentation provided by this package directly from their GNOME desktop environment, simply by pressing the F1 key on their keyboard anywhere on the desktop. The GNOME Help window will pop-up, allowing you to search for a specific item.
Supported languages
At the moment, the GNOME documentation is officially translated in numerous languages, including English, Catalan, Czech, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Galician, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Danish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Serbian, Serbian Latin, Vietnamese, Chinese, Thai, and Greek.
What GNOME apps/components have documentation?
Many of the central GNOME applications, as well as its essential components have documentation oriented towards end-users. Among the most popular apps and components that have documentation in this package, we can mention GNOME Online Accounts, Bluetooth, GNOME Clocks, GNOME Control Center, GNOME Contacts, Disks, Nautilus (Files), GNOME Classic, GNOME Power Manager, Printing, Sharing, GNOME Shell, and Wacom.
What about developer-related documentation?
The GNOME Project also comes with comprehensive documentation for developers who want to create rich applications for the GNOME desktop environment. It is available for download separately, as a package called gnome-devel-docs, which can be downloaded from Softoware.
What is new in this release:
- Updates to GNOME Help (Petr Kovar)
- Updates to System Admin Guide (Petr Kovar, Marek Cernocky)
- Updated translations:
- cs (Marek Cernocky)
- de (Mario Blattermann, Christian Kirbach)
- hu (Gabor Kelemen)
- pl (Piotr Drag)
- sv (Anders Jonsson)
What is new in version 3.26.1.1:
- Updated translations:
- es (Daniel Mustieles)
- pt_BR (Rafael Fontenelle)
- sv (Anders Jonsson)
What is new in version 3.26.0:
- Updates to System Admin Guide (Marek Cernocky)
- Updated translations:
- cs (Marek Cernocky)
- de (Mario Blattermann, Christian Kirbach)
- fi (Jiri Gronroos)
- gl (Fran Dieguez, Piotr Drag)
- hu (Gabor Kelemen)
- lv (Rudolfs Mazurs)
- nl (hanniedu)
- pl (Piotr Drag)
- pt_BR (Rafael Fontenelle)
- ro (Daniel Șerbanescu)
- sv (Sebastian Rasmussen)
What is new in version 3.24.2:
- Updates to GNOME Help (Paul Cutler, Alexandre Franke, Gunnar Hjalmarsson)
- Updated translations:
- pt_BR (Rafael Fontenelle)
- sv (Anders Jonsson)
What is new in version 3.22.0:
- Updates to GNOME Help (Rafael Fontenelle, Michael Hill, Felipe Borges, Alexandre Franke)
- Updated translations:
- cs (Marek Cernocky')
- de (Christian Kirbach)
- es (Daniel Mustieles)
- fi (Jiri Gronroos)
- he (Yosef Or Boczko)
- hu (Gabor Kelemen, Balazs Ur)
- lv (Ingmars Dirins)
- pt_BR (Rafael Fontenelle)
- sr (МироCлaв Николић)
- sr@latin (МироCлaв Николић)
- sv (Anders Jonsson)
What is new in version 3.20.2:
- Updated translations:
- es (Daniel Mustieles)
- hu (GAbor Kelemen)
- sv (Anders Jonsson)
What is new in version 3.14.2:
- Updates to GNOME Help (Michael Hill)
- Updated translations
What is new in version 3.14.1:
- Updates to GNOME Help
- Updated translations: hu, sr and sr@latin
What is new in version 3.14.0:
- Updates to GNOME Help (David King, Ekaterina Gerasimova, Sebastian Rasmussen, Petr Kovar)
- Updates to System Admin Guide (Petr Kovar, Ekaterina Gerasimova)
- Updated translations:
- de (Benjamin Steinwender)
- es (Daniel Mustieles)
- mr (Sandeep Sheshrao Shedmake)
What is new in version 3.14 RC1:
- Updates to GNOME Help (David King, Sebastian Rasmussen, Ekaterina Gerasimova)
- Updated translations:
- es (Daniel Mustieles)
- fr (Ekaterina Gerasimova, Alain Lojewski)
- gu (Sweta Kothari)
- ta (Shantha kumar, Ekaterina Gerasimova)
What is new in version 3.12.2:
- Updates to GNOME Help (eº"a§, Yingqi Gou, Jim Campbell, Ekaterina Gerasimova)
- Updates to System Admin Guide (Ekaterina Gerasimova, Petr Kovar, Shaun McCance, David King, Jana Svarova, Jim Campbell)
- Updated translations:
- de (Benjamin Steinwender)
- el (Dimitris Spingos)
- hu (GAbor Kelemen)
- ru (Stas Solovey)
What is new in version 3.10.2:
- Updates to GNOME Help (Aruna Sankaranarayanan, Ekaterina Gerasimova, Jim Campbell, Michael Hill, Petr Kovar, Shaun McCance, Shobha Tyagi)
- Updated translations:
- as (Nilamdyuti Goswami, Ekaterina Gerasimova)
- gl (Ekaterina Gerasimova)
- id (Andika Triwidada)
- ja (Takashi Sakamoto)
- lv (Ekaterina Gerasimova, RA"dolfs Mazurs)
- pt_BR (Enrico Nicoletto, JoAGBPo Santana)
- ru (Stas Solovey)
- sr (Ekaterina Gerasimova)
- sr@latin (Ekaterina Gerasimova)
- ta (Shantha kumar)
- zh_CN (Ekaterina Gerasimova)
What is new in version 3.10.1:
- Updates to GNOME Help (Shobha Tyagi, Michael Hill, Daniel Mustieles)
- Updated translations:
- ca (Gil Forcada)
- de (Christian Kirbach)
- es (Daniel Mustieles)
- hu (Gabor Kelemen)
- lv (RA"dolfs Mazurs)
- sr (ÐoиN€Ð¾NÐ"Ð
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