GNOME Devel Docs

GNOME Devel Docs (gnome-devel-docs) is an open source project distributed for free along with the GNOME desktop environment, providing comprehensive documentation for developers who work on the GNOME Project, as well as for aspiring programmers who want to create feature-rich apps for GNOME. The documentation can be easily accessed via the GNOME Help application.

It is structured in six main categories

The gnome-devel-docs package comprises of numerous documentation elements, which are translated in several language (see the section below for details) and organized in six main categories. In alphabetical order, they are Accessibility Devel Guide, HIG (Human Interface Guidelines), Optimization Guide, Platform Demos, Platform Overview and Programming Guidelines.

Therefore, the package will provide GNOME developers with detailed documentation about how to optimize their applications for the GNOME desktop environment, implement the Human Interface Guidelines when designing graphical user interfaces for their apps, as well as to learn GNOME programming.

Supported languages

Currently, each of the aforementioned category of documentation is translated in several languages, but not all of them are translated in the same amount of languages. Among the supported languages, we can mention, English, Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, French, Spanish, Galician, Slovenian, Russian, Italian, Japanese, Greek, German, Czech, Catalan, Slovak, and Occitan.

Shipped with GNOME Project

As expected, this package is shipped with the GNOME Project and it is automatically deployed in any fresh installation of the GNOME desktop environment and can be easily acccessed by pressing the F1 key anywhere on the desktop. The GNOME Library window will pop-up, allowing you to search for a specific item.

What about user-related documentation?

The GNOME Project also comes with comprehensive documentation for end-users who want to learn how to use the GNOME desktop environment, set up various application, as well as to configure several settings. This package is called GNOME User Docs (gnome-user-docs) and it is available for download on Softoware.

What is new in this release:

• Modernise JS usage in platform overview and demos, #791111 (Florian MA¼llner)
• Update spell-checking page in platform overview, #781265 (SAbastien Wilmet)
• Glade updates in platform overview (Andre Klapper)
• Updated translations:
• cs (Marek AŒernockA½)
• de (Christian Kirbach, Mario BlA¤ttermann)
• es (Daniel Mustieles)
• pt_BR (Rafael Fontenelle)
• sv (Anders Jonsson)

What is new in version :

• Add description of GNOM and GVDB to programming guidlines (Philip Withnall)
• Add a fullscreen mode pattern to the HIG (Allan Day)
• Improvements to platform demos (David King, Sebastian Rasmussen)
• HIG-compliant applications may run without open windows (Allan Day)
• Updated translations:
• ca (Jordi Mas)
• cs (Marek Cernocky')

What is new in version 3.22.1:

• Updated translations:
• de (Mario Blattermann)
• ko (Seong-ho Cho)

What is new in version 3.20.2 / 3.22.0 Beta:

• Initial application states pattern for the HIG (Allan Day)
• Coding style improvements (Mohammed Sadik)
• Updated translations:
• cs (Marek Cernocky')

What is new in version 3.20.2:

• Improvements to the HIG (Allan Day)
• Improved licensing of the platform overview (Ekaterina Gerasimova)
• Port Python demos to Python 3 (David King)
• Add a page on API stability to the programming guidelines (Philip Withnall)
• Updated translations:
• cs (Marek AŒernockA½)
• el (Dimitris Spingos)
• es (Daniel Mustieles)

What is new in version 3.16.2:

• Improvements to programming guidelines (Sebastien Wilmet, David King, Marek Cernocky')
• Updated translations: es (Alex Puchades, Daniel Mustieles)

What is new in version 3.16.0:

• Fix context pushing in programming guidelines example (Philip Withnall)
• Updated translations:
• cs (Marek AŒernockA½)
• es (Daniel Mustieles)

What is new in version 3.15.4:

• Overhaul the programming guidelines (Philip Withnall)
• Restructuring of the C platform demos (Bastian IlsA¸)
• Improvements to the platform overview (Bastian IlsA¸, Philip Withnall)
• Updated translations:
• el (Dimitris Spingos)
• es (Daniel Mustieles, Adrian Perez Dominguez)

What is new in version 3.14.4:

• Fixes and improvements to the platform demos (David King)
• Fix to the ATK page in the platform overview (Christian Kirbach)
• Clarification to the HIG regarding ellipses (Ekaterina Gerasimova)
• Updated translations:
• de (Christian Kirbach)
• es (Daniel Mustieles, Rosa Elena PArez, Oscar Rafael
• Arachi, Miguel Ajuech, Adrian Perez Dominguez)

What is new in version 3.14.3:

• Distribute widget_drawing.py.page
• Updated translations:
• Czech
• Russian

What is new in version 3.14.2:

• Distribute the HIG header image
• Updated translations

What is new in version 3.14.1:

• Improvements and fixes to the HIG (Matthias Clasen, Allan Day, David King, Jakub Steiner)
• Updated translations: es (Daniel Mustieles)

What is new in version 3.14.0:

• Improvements to the HIG (Allan Day)
• Updated translations:
• el (Tom Tryfonidis)

What is new in version 3.14 RC1:

• Fix broken links in platform overview (David King)
• Clarify licenses of included documentation in COPYING (David King)
• Capitalization and ellipses improvements to the HIG (Allan Day)
• Updated translations:
• de (Christian Kirbach)
• el (Tom Tryfonidis)
• es (Daniel Mustieles)

What is new in version 3.12.3:

• Relicense HIG to CC-BY-SA 4.0 (Allan Day)
• Remove unused images (Richard Hughes)
• Updated translations:
• es (Daniel Mustieles)
• el (Tom Tryfonidis)

What is new in version 3.10.2:

• Updates to Platform Overview.

What is new in version 3.10.1:

• Updates to Platform Demos (Luis Menina)
• Updated translations:
• el (Dimitris Spingos)
• es (Daniel Mustieles)
• pt_BR (Rafael Ferreira)

What is new in version 3.8.1:

• Typo fixes (Daniel Mustieles)
• Updated translations:
• el (Dimitris Spingos)
• es (NicolAs Satragno)
• gl (Fran DiAguez)
• pt_BR (Rafael Ferreira)

What is new in version 3.8.0:

• Updates to demos (Marta Maria Casetti, David King, Jim Campbell, Emmanuele Bassi, Monica Kochofar)
• Updated to overview (David King)
• Fixed typos (Daniel Mustieles)
• Updated translations:
• de (Mario BlA¤ttermann, Christian Kirbach)
• el (Jiro Matsuzawa, Dimitris Spingos)
• es (NicolAs Satragno)
• gl (Fran DiAguez)

What is new in version 3.7.90:

• Updates to Python demos (Marta Maria Casetti)
• Fixed incorrect value in Guitar Tuner demo, #687628 (Tiffany Antopolski)
• Various typo fixes (Daniel Mustieles)
• Updated translations:
• el (Tom Tryfonidis, Dimitris Spingos)
• es (NicolAs Satragno, Daniel Mustieles)
• pt_BR (Enrico Nicoletto)

What is new in version 3.6.1:

• Fixed broken accessibility links in HIG (Calum Benson)
• Updated translations:
• el (Tom Tryfonidis)
• es (NicolAs Satragno, Daniel Mustieles)

What is new in version 3.5.2:

• Platform Demos
• Updates from Tiffany Antopolski, Marta Casetti, Taryn Fox, Monica Kochofar, Ryan Lortie
• Updated translations:
• es (Daniel Mustieles)
• fr (Bruno Brouard)
• Human Interface Guidelines
• Updated translations:
• es (Gladys Guerrero-Lozano)
• Accessibility Development Guide
• Removed references to these non-existant figures (Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse)

What is new in version 3.4.0:

• Human Interface Guidelines
• Misc fixes from Daniel Mustieles
• Updated translations:
• fr (Bruno Brouard)
• Integration Guide
• Updated translations:
• es (Daniel Mustieles)

What is new in version 3.2.1:

• Fixed links to EDS documentation (Shaun McCance)
• Fixed missing license files (Gert Michael Kulyk)
• Updated translations:
• ca (Gil Forcada)
• es (Jorge GonzAlez)

What is new in version 3.2.0:

• Human Interface Guidelines:
• Fixed links to freedesktop specifications (Calum Benson)
• Updated translations:
• de (Mario BlA¤ttermann)
• es (Daniel Mustieles, Jorge GonzAlez, Francisco Molinero)
• fr (Alexandre Franke, Bruno Brouard)
• gl (Fran Dieguez)

What is new in version 3.0.1:

• Actually install catalog file correctly (Shaun McCance)

What is new in version 3.0.0:

• Updates to demos and overview

What is new in version 2.91.91:

• Accessibility Devel Guide
• Updated translations:
• es (Francisco Javier F. Serrador)
• Human Interface Guidelines
• Updated translations:
• es (Daniel Mustieles)
• zh_CN (zhanggggfd)