Re: Origin of the name "Yelp" for GNOME's help viewer

Calum Benson <[email protected]> Fri, 18 Nov 2016 17:22:44 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnome.general
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> On 18 Nov 2016, at 06:20, Ryan Cunningham <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> It may not be a fact that this name came from the indicated source; if
> it did not, please indicate where the name did in fact come from.

From the yelp README file in GNOME 2:

"Yelp is supposed to become a help browser for GNOME 2.0. The name Yelp
was suggested by Daniel Lundin. Yelp is pronounced the same as the
swedish word for 'help’.”

<https://git.gnome.org/browse/yelp/tree/README?h=gnome-2-0>

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