Devhelp

Devhelp: API Documentation Browser for GNOME

API documentation browser for GNOME that allows developers to easily access documentation for GTK, GNOME, GStreamer, and more, featuring full-text and keyword search, different views, printing support, bookmarks, and more.

What is Devhelp?

Devhelp is an open source API documentation browser developed for the GNOME desktop environment. It allows programmers to easily access documentation for developing applications in GTK, GNOME, GStreamer, and other GNOME-related technologies.

Some key features of Devhelp include:

• Full-text and keyword-based search across documentation sets
• Different views for browsing like symbols, hierarchy, search results, history, and bookmarks
• Support for printing documentation pages
• Syntax highlighting in documentation code samples
• Linking between related documentation pages
• Adding custom documentation sets in a variety of formats including HTML, XML, and tag files
• Translations available for many languages
• Extensible through plugins and scripts

Devhelp aims to provide an integrated single place for developers to access all documentation needed for GNOME application development. It reduces the need to jump between multiple docs sources, pages, and websites while coding. The search capabilities allow quickly finding documentation on specific classes, methods, etc.

Devhelp comes bundled by default in many Linux distributions focused on GNOME software development like Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, Ubuntu, and others. It integrates tightly with the GNOME desktop environment. Developers can install documentation locally via distribution packages or access documentation sets published online.

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