I installed devhelp. All the pages were empty, so I searched and found an old arch entry that indicated the doc is installed separately. This was repeated on the devhelp home page. The package looks supported.
I searched for gtk3-docs at branch-compare, but it is only in unstable.
When I clicked gtk3-docs it took me to Discover, where I got a “Kernel Panic 404 - page not found, rebooting server.” It consistantly happened with this package. I tried another package (i.e., gimp) and it worked fine. I’m think’n packages that have n/a in the Stable row should not have links to Discover
I was also interested in the geany devhelp plugin. I have the community package, geany-plugins installed, but it doesn’t contain the devhelp plugin.
I usually install documentation locally so I don’t have to have connectivity and I can integrate it into an editor. I’ve never used devhelp before and thought I’d give it a try.
Anyone else using devhelp? Any pointers to get started.
What kind of documentation did you install and from where?
Any particular reason the geany devhelp plugin wasn’t included in geany-plugins?
The GTK3 / GTK4 docs and demos were moved out of the gtk3 / gtk4 packages into gtk3-docs / gtk4-docs and gtk3-demos / gtk4-demos. However, on the stable and testing branches they are still included in gtk3 / gtk4.
That is strange as it’s an official plugin, but it appears to be disabled by default when building.
Good info to know. How does a user of Manjaro, know when this kind of stuff happens? Do I need to be watching something at Marjaro or at Arch? I hate bugging you guys if I can find the answer myself
Does this mean that eventually the gtk doc and demos will be separate packages in Stable, like they are in Unstable?
I often install as much doc and demos locally as available. I don’t consider optional documentation to be bloatware. /usr/share/doc is my favorite place to hang out and read
From time to time I have looked at yelp. It seems to me to be GNOME’s version of KDE’s Help Center. yelp didn’t impress me much, but there were entries. I don’t know when it occurred, but when I looked at it when I wrote this post, it was/is blank.