              GNOME Commander Version 0.9.6

              Copyright (C) 2001-2002 
              Marcus Bjurman <marbj499@student.liu.se>
              http://gnome-commander.sourceforge.net


Topics:
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1. Introduction
2. Contributing
3. Building
4. Communication


1. Introduction
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GNOME Commander is file manager aimed at people that wants a fast and efficient file manager. The program can currently perform most common file operations such as copy, move, delete, chown and chmod and so on. It can also detect changes to files caused by other programs and update the views without the need for the user to manually reload. The program also supports Copy&Paste as well as Drag&Drop. Additionaly if you install within 10 minutes you get MIME-support includes at no extra charge. How about that?

The program has some basic FTP support through GnomeVFS but it's not really good yet. There is also a lot of code written to support CVS operations but it's disabled for the moment since I wanted to concentrate on making the other parts of the program stable first. Maybe sometime after 1.0 I can start hacking on the CVS code again.

Read the TODO file to see if there is some known problems with the version you are using.


2. Contributing
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If you're not an programmer but have some good ideas for stuff that you want to see in this program, check the TODO file first before sending email.

If you want to submit a patch please do so but remember the following:
  * Send an email with the patch to the developers mailing list. DO NOT SEND
    THE PATCH AS AN ATTACHMENT, instead include it as text right after the
	your description of what it does.
  * Please use the -u flag when generating the patch.
  * Besides the patch it self also write a good explanation of what the
    patch does.

					   
3. Building
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This is a list of required libraries:
	 * gnome-libs:
	   Used for the graphics of the program.

	 * GnomeVFS:
	   Used for most of the file handling. 

If you have the libraries above the "./configure; make; make install" procedure should work like a charm.

This is a strongly recommended library:
	 * FAM (http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/index.html):
	   Used to monitoring file alterations, which means that when you
	   create/delete/modify a file this program gets a message from FAM so it
	   can update it's directory views. You can build this program without FAM
	   but then you'll have to prepare to do a lot of manual reloading since
	   even files that are altered with this program won't show up until you
	   manually reload.


This is an optional library:
	 * GMemLogger (http://www.freesoftware.fsf.org/gmemlogger/):
	   Only needed if you're a developer and configure with --with-gmemlogger.
	   It is used to monitor memory leaks.

	   

4. Communication
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This project has two mailing lists, one for users and one for developers. Subscription to those mailing lists can be done at:

users: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gnome-commander-users
devel: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gnome-commander-devel
