How to get GTK4 documentation in the devhelp app?

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#1

Hi,

is there any way of getting the GTK4 reference manual in the devhelp app? I’ve searched for a gtk4.devhelp2 but can’t find it, nor can I find any html files for the manual. I can probably get the latter with a lot of work sifting through the online docs, but I’d rather not.

If anybody is using another app or method of viewing the docs which is superior, let me know. I like having all the docs in an app rather than cluttering my browser.

Cheers.

#2

You will need Devhelp 42 in order to read the API reference for GTK4, GdkPixbuf, Pango, and any other project that switched away from gtk-doc to gi-docgen. The devhelp file is installed under $datadir/doc/$libraryname, where $datadir is typically /usr/share.

I recommend installing Devhelp from Flathub, and then installing the org.gnome.Sdk.Docs run time extension, which contains the documentation of all the libraries that are part of the GNOME run time.

#3

You have three options:

  • Install org.gnome.Sdk.Docs runtime extension if you are using the flatpak version of DevHelp (as suggested by @ebassi).
  • Otherwise, make sure you have installed both devhelp and gtk-docs from the distro’s package manager.
  • Also, you can just install https://docs.gtk.org as a web-app if you do not mind going online for documentation and you have a web browser capable of installing web-apps.