Yelp

Yelp is an open source application that provides users with a straightforward way to find the best documentation for the GNOME desktop environment, as well as for all of its components and applications.

Designed for GNOME

It is distributed as part of the GNOME project, installed by default with any fresh installation of the controversial desktop environment. A source archive is also available for download, allowing users to configure, compile and install the application on any Linux distribution.

The application is accessible from any GNOME application, simply by pressing the F1 button or by accessing the Help option, allowing users to easily find detailed information about how to use the default functions of the respective software.

Features at a glance

It provides users with basic introduction and overview of each GNOME application, as well as with getting started howtos, customization examples, and advanced configuration options. All the documentation is well structured and can be easily navigated.

The program supports audio, video, TTML subtitles, MathML, SVG, conditional processing, and syntax highlighting. It can natively display DocBook, Mallard, HTML, man pages, and info documents.

In addition, the documentation can be easily located according to the help system specification provided by freedesktop.org. It is comprised of two command-line utilities, yelp-tools and yelp-xls.

While yelp-tools includes various commands for generating, publishing and maintaining documentation, the yelp-xls utility provides the core XSLT stylesheets used by the Yelp application to display the documentation.

Another interesting feature is the ability to display detailed documentation for the GNOME desktop environment, helping novices to learn how to use various functions, and allowing advanced users to troubleshoot problems faster than with other traditional tools.

Bottom line

All in all, Yelp is an extremely useful application for novice and advanced GNOME users alike, a central place for all the documentation and troubleshooting information of the entire GNOME desktop environment.

What is new in this release:

• Add AppData file (Daniel Mustieles, Kalev Lember, David King, Jeremy Bicha)
• Updated translations:
• cs (Marek Cernocky')
• de (Christian Kirbach)
• es (Daniel Mustieles)
• fi (Jiri Gronroos)
• gl (Fran Dieguez)
• hr (gogo)
• id (Andika Triwidada)
• it (Milo Casagrande)
• lt (Aurimas Cernius)
• lv (Rudolfs Mazurs)
• nl (Justin van Steijn)
• pl (Piotr Drag)
• pt_BR (Rafael Fontenelle)
• ro (Daniel Șerbanescu)
• ru (Stas Solovey)
• sl (Matej Urbancic)
• sr (Мaрко КоCтић)
• sv (Anders Jonsson)
• zh_TW (Cheng-Chia Tseng)

What is new in version :

• Updates for new yelp-xsl stylesheets
• Updated translations:
• ca@valencia.po (Xavi Ivars)
• sk (Dusan Kazik)
• sl (Matej Urbancic)

What is new in version 3.26.0:

• Require WebKitGTK+ 2.15.1, and use stable DOM API headers
• Don't translate properties
• Updated translations:
• bg (Alexander Shopov)
• ca (Jordi Mas)
• da (Ask Hjorth Larsen)
• pl (Piotr Drag)
• ro (Daniel Șerbanescu)
• tr (Muhammet Kara)
• zh_TW (Andre Klapper)

What is new in version 3.25.3:

• Fix loading uncompressed info pages, #775603 (Ting-Wei Lan)
• Fix the search box border, #777809 (Trinh Anh Ngoc)
• Fix showing the print dialog, #778256 (Christian Hergert)
• Improvement to async page load handling, #778258 (Christian Hergert)
• Fix a memory leak (David King)
• Updated translations:
• be (Ihar Hrachyshka)
• da (Ask Hjorth Larsen)
• eu (Inaki Larranaga Murgoitio)
• fur (Fabio Tomat)
• hr (gogo)
• if (Milo Casagrande)
• is (Sveinn i Felli)
• nb (Aka Sikrom)
• nl (hanniedu)
• ru (Stas Solovey)
• sr (Мaрко КоCтић)
• zh_CN (YunQiang Su)
• zh_TW (Chao-Hsiung Liao)

What is new in version 3.22.0:

• Add 'help' to list of desktop file keywords, #764322 (David King)
• Updated translations:
• cs (Marek Cernocky')
• da (Ask Hjorth Larsen)
• de (Mario Blattermann)
• el (Tom Tryfonidis)
• en_GB (David King)
• es (Daniel Mustieles)
• fa (Arash Mousavi)
• fi (Jiri Gronroos)
• fur (Fabio Tomat)
• fr (Alexandre Franke)
• gd (GunChleoc)
• gl (Fran Dieguez)
• he (Yosef Or Boczko)
• hu (Balazs Ur)
• id (Andika Triwidada)
• kk (Baurzhan Muftakhidinov)
• ko (Seong-ho Cho)
• lv (Rudolfs Mazurs)
• pl (Piotr Drag)
• pt (Tiago Santos)
• pt_BR (Rafael Ferreira)
• sk (Dusan Kazik)
• sl (Matej Urbancic)
• sr (МироCлaв Николић)
• sv (Anders Jonsson)
• uk (Daniel Korostil)
• vi (Trần Ngọc Quan)

What is new in version 3.21.3:

• Build system improvements (Michael Catanzaro, Sam Spilsbury, Emmaneuele Bassi)
• Compiler warning fix (Cosimo Cecchi)
• Updated translations:
• gd (GunChleoc)
• oc (Cedric Valmary)
• pt (Sergio Cardeira)

What is new in version 3.17.3:

• Port to WebKit2 API, #686376 (Marcos ChavarrAa Teijeiro, Carlos Garcia Campos, David King)
• Use a header bar as a toolbar in Unity, #749903 (Iain Lane)

What is new in version 3.16.1:

• Updated translations: is (Sveinn i Felli)

What is new in version 3.16.0:

• Avoid recursive activation, #745407 (Matthias Clasen)
• Updated translations:
• bs (Samir Ribic)
• kk (Baurzhan Muftakhidinov)
• tg (Victor Ibragimov)

What is new in version 3.14.1:

• Updated translations:
• bg (Ivaylo Valkov)
• bn_IN (Saibal Ray)
• fa (Arash Mousavi)
• it (Milo Casagrande)
• lv (RA"dolfs Mazurs)
• te (Krishnababu Krothapalli)
• uk (Daniel Korostil)

What is new in version 3.14.0:

• Updated translations:
• bn_IN (Saibal Ray)
• hi (Rajesh Ranjan)
• ja (Jiro Matsuzawa)
• kn (Shankar Prasad)
• mr (Sandeep Sheshrao Shedmake)
• ne (Pawan Chitrakar)
• or (Manoj Kumar Giri)
• pa (A S Alam)
• pl (PaweA‚ A"oA‚nowski)

What is new in version 3.14 RC1:

• Fixed crash on searching, #736312 (Marcos ChavarrAa Teijeiro)
• Style the find revealer, #736408 (David King)
• Updated translations:
• da (Kenneth Nielsen)
• de (Benjamin Steinwender)
• fi (Ville-Pekka Vainio)
• fr (Alexandre Franke)
• gu (Sweta Kothari)
• id (Andika Triwidada)
• ko (Changwoo Ryu)
• sk (DuAan Kazik)
• sv (Mattias Eriksson)
• ta (Shantha kumar)

What is new in version 3.14 Beta 1:

• Use new symbolic menu item
• Updated translations:
• as (Nilamdyuti Goswami)
• ca (Gil Forcada)
• ca@valencia (Carles Ferrando)
• de (Benjamin Steinwender)
• gd (GunChleoc)
• el (Tom Tryfonidis)
• eu (IA±aki LarraA±aga Murgoitio)
• fi (Lasse Liehu)
• gl (Fran DiAguez)
• hu (BalAzs Asr)
• nb (A...ka Sikrom)
• ru (Yuri Myasoedov)
• zh_CN (irisgyq)
• zh_HK (Chao-Hsiung Liao)
• zh_TW (Chao-Hsiung Liao)

What is new in version 3.13.3:

• Complete redesign to fit with new GNOME 3 apps
• Updated color computing code to avoid deprecations
• Updated translations:
• cs (Marek AŒernockA½)
• es (Daniel Mustieles)
• he (Yosef Or Boczko)
• id (Dirgita)
• lt (Aurimas AŒernius)
• pt_BR (Rafael Ferreira)
• ru (Yuri Myasoedov)
• sl (Matej UrbanAiA)
• sv (Anders Jonsson)

What is new in version 3.11.1:

• Implemented auto-reload for DocBook, #704821
• Updated translations: nl (Wouter Bolsterlee)

What is new in version 3.10.1:

• Updated GSettings install rule, #697815
• Updated translations:
• ro (Daniel Serbanescu)

What is new in version 3.10.0:

• Updated translations:
• ar (Khaled Hosny)
• et (Mattias PAµldaru)
• lv (RA"dolfs Mazurs)
• th (Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
• uk (Daniel Korostil)

What is new in version 3.10 Beta 2:

• Correctly detect Unity for conditional processing, #707352 (Kevin Godby)
• Fixed build issue with intltool and gettext, #706854 (SeAn de BAºrca)
• Updated translations:
• eo (Ryan Lortie)
• fr (Alexandre Franke)
• ga (SeAn de BAºrca)

Requirements:

• GNOME
• gnome-doc-utils
• ScrollKeeper
• DocBook XML DTD