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Desktop Help Tasks

This page holds a list of tasks to do with the desktop help. This is the set of help files which are relevant to the GNOME desktop as a whole. For more information about getting involved, see here.

Resources and References

• Contributing to the Desktop Help

• GNOME User docs: Bug reports and feature requests

• GNOME Documentation discussion forum

• Mallard markup reference

• Mallard Cheat Sheet

• GNOME Git and GitLab How-to guide

Outdated pages

To get a list of GNOME User Docs pages explicitly marked as outdated in the code base itself, run

•  $ yelp-check status --only outdated gnome-help/C/*.page

Review Candidate pages

To get a list of GNOME User Docs pages explicitly marked as review candidates in the code base itself, run

•  $ yelp-check status --only review gnome-help/C/*.page

Tasks to check or convert into issues

See https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-user-docs/-/issues/ for GitLab issues

• Check documentation for cloud printing
• Review all net-* pages, these are very popular
• Document search providers

• Document what a home directory is, and replace references to <file>Home</file with a link to it

• Document how to remove a saved fingerprint (session-fingerprint)
• Add privacy-location and document turning off geolocation (Geoclue)